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12 Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand:
Forget not the [a]poor.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,
And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?
14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest [b]mischief and spite, [c]to requite it with thy hand:
The [d]helpless committeth himself unto thee;
Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 10:12 Or, meek
  2. Psalm 10:14 Or, travail and grief
  3. Psalm 10:14 Or, to take it into thy hand
  4. Psalm 10:14 Or, hapless

12 Arise,(A) Lord! Lift up your hand,(B) O God.
    Do not forget the helpless.(C)
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?(D)
    Why does he say to himself,
    “He won’t call me to account”?(E)
14 But you, God, see the trouble(F) of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;(G)
    you are the helper(H) of the fatherless.

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