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KING JAMES VERSION
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Why standest thou
afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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The wicked in his
pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they
have imagined.
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For the wicked
boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD
abhorreth.
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The wicked, through
the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his
thoughts.
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His ways are always
grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his
enemies, he puffeth at them.
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He hath said in his
heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
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His mouth is full of
cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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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.
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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.
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He croucheth, and
humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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He hath said in his
heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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Arise, O LORD; O
God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. |
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Wherefore doth the
wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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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.
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Break thou the arm
of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
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The LORD is King for
ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
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LORD, thou hast
heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt
cause thine ear to hear:
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To judge the
fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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