¹Why do you stand far off, Yahvah? Witholding your care in times of trouble?
²The pride of the wicked makes the poor to suffer; let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
³For the ungodly boasts of his own desire, and Yahvah is angry when the wicked is blessed.
⁴The wicked in the pride of his countenance will not seek after god; and there is no god in all his thoughts.
⁵His ways are always weak; your judgments are far above, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he despises them.
⁶He says in his heart, I will not be moved from generation to generation; for he conceives evil.
⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit (53:3:14) and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and deceit.
⁸He sits in the lurking place of a den; and in a secret place he does murder the innocent; his eyes spy on the destitute.
⁹He lies in wait to snare the poor by drawing him into his net.
¹⁰He will be humbled and overthrown, and in his bones there will be sickness and pain.
¹¹He says in his heart, God has forgotten; he has turned away his face; he will never see it.

¹²Arise, Yahvah; my god, lift up your hand; do not forget the afflicted.
¹³Why does the wicked provoke god? He says in his heart, God does not seek vengeance.
¹⁴You have seen it; for there is mischief and wrath, for you see that he has surrendered himself to your hands; and the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man; seek out his wickedness until you find none.

¹⁶Yahvah is king forever and ever; the Gentiles are perished out of his land.
¹⁷Yahvah, you have heard the desire of the poor; your ear has heard the preparation of their heart;
¹⁸execute justice to the fatherless and to the afflicted, so that man may not be destroyed from the face of the land.