2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
The proud have digged for me pits, That `are' not according to Thy law.
Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?
And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.
And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes. For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
still thou art exalting thyself against My people -- so as not to send them away;
Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.
Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured. Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
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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.