_1. Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? _2. The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. _3. For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. _4. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. _5. His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. _6. He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. _7. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. _8. He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. _9. He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. _10. He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. _11. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. _12. Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. _13. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. _14. Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. _15. Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. _16. The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. _17. LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: _18. To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.