12 Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.
For He who is seeking for blood Them hath remembered, He hath not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.
High is thy hand above thine adversaries, And all thine enemies are cut off.
Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:
Rise, O Jehovah, let not man be strong, Let nations be judged before Thy face.
Separate wonderfully Thy kindness, O Saviour of the confiding, By Thy right hand, from withstanders.
Hath God forgotten `His' favours? Hath He shut up in anger His mercies? Selah.
O Jehovah, high `is' Thy hand -- they see not, They see the zeal of the people, and are ashamed, Also, the fire -- Thine adversaries, consumeth them.
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Commentary on Psalms 10 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 10
The Septuagint translation joins this psalm with the ninth, and makes them but one; but the Hebrew makes it a distinct psalm, and the scope and style are certainly different. In this psalm,
Psa 10:1-11
David, in these verses, discovers,
In singing this psalm and praying it over, we should have our hearts much affected with a holy indignation at the wickedness of the oppressors, a tender compassion of the miseries of the oppressed, and a pious zeal for the glory and honour of God, with a firm belief that he will, in due time, give redress to the injured and reckon with the injurious.
Psa 10:12-18
David here, upon the foregoing representation of the inhumanity and impiety of the oppressors, grounds an address to God, wherein observe,
In singing these verses we must commit religion's just but injured cause to God, as those that are heartily concerned for its honour and interests, believing that he will, in due time, plead it with jealousy.