Word
of God
But
he answering, said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread only,
but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
The
Gospel According to Matthew 4:4
Psalm
10
Prefaced
& Edited by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades
1
Why standest thou far off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, even
in affliction? 2 The wicked with pride doth persecute the poor; let
them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked
hath made boast of his own heart’s desire, and the covetous
blesseth himself, he contemneth the Lord. 4 The wicked is so proud,
that he seeketh not for God: he thinketh always, There is no God. 5
His ways always prosper: thy judgments are high above his sight;
therefore defieth he all his enemies. 6 He saith in his heart, I
shall never be moved, nor be in danger. 7 His mouth is full of
cursing, and deceit, and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and
iniquity. 8 He lieth in wait in the villages; in the secret places
doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are bent against the poor. 9 He
lieth in wait secretly, even as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait
to spoil the poor; he doth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into
his net. 10 He croucheth and boweth; therefore heaps of the poor do
fall by his might. 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten,
he hideth away his face, and will never see. 12 Arise, O Lord God,
lift up thine hand; forget not the poor. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked
contemn God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard. 14 Yet thou
hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and wrong; that thou mayest
take it into thine hands; the poor committeth himself unto thee; for
thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the
wicked and malicious; search his wickedness, and thou shalt find
none. 16 The Lord is King forever and ever; the heathen are destroyed
forth of his land. 17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor;
thou preparest their heart; thou bendest thine ear to them, 18 To
judge the fatherless and poor, that earthly man cause to fear no
more.
Brethren:
Psalm
Ten reads as if it were an treatise on human nature. It covers those
that have turned from God. Yet the psalmist also relates their end,
and knows that the Lord our God sees the hearts (Read Luke 16:15), of
men and judges accordingly. He seeks those that are reflections of
His own heart. (Read 1 Samuel 13:14). Henceforth, friends, let us
seek to be as those that seek after Him and His righteousness.
Consider also this day in your meditations Psalms 14:1, 53:1:
Proverbs 15:10-12 - Dr. Riktor Von Zhades - Humble servant of Christ
“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, David complains of
the wickedness of the wicked, describes the dreadful pitch of impiety
at which they had arrived (to the great dishonour of God and the
prejudice of his church and people), and notices the delay of God’s
appearing against them. He prays to God to appear against them for
the relief of his people and comforts himself with hopes that he
would do so in due time.”
Matthew
Henry 17th Century Theologian
“1
He complaineth of the fraud, rapine, tyranny, and all kinds of wrong,
which worldly men use, assigning the cause thereof, that wicked men,
being as it were drunken with worldly prosperity, and therefore
setting apart all fear and reverence towards God, think they may do
all things without controlling. 15 Therefore he calleth upon God to
send some remedy against these desperate evils, 16 and at length
comforteth himself with hope of deliverance.”
Notations
from the Geneva Bible Translation
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