Psalm 10  New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³ For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart,
    those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.
⁴ In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, ‘God will not seek it out’;
    all their thoughts are, ‘There is no God.’

⁵ Their ways prosper at all times;
    your judgements are on high, out of their sight;
    as for their foes, they scoff at them.
⁶ They think in their heart, ‘We shall not be moved;
    throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.’

⁷ Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;
    under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.
⁸ They sit in ambush in the villages;
    in hiding-places they murder the innocent.

Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
⁹     they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert;
they lurk that they may seize the poor;
    they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.

¹⁰ They stoop, they crouch,
    and the helpless fall by their might.
¹¹ They think in their heart, ‘God has forgotten,
    he has hidden his face, he will never see it.’

¹² Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;
    do not forget the oppressed.
¹³ Why do the wicked renounce God,
    and say in their hearts, ‘You will not call us to account’?

¹⁴ But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief,
    that you may take it into your hands;
the helpless commit themselves to you;
    you have been the helper of the orphan.

¹⁵ Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers;
    seek out their wickedness until you find none.
¹⁶ The Lord is king for ever and ever;
    the nations shall perish from his land.

¹⁷ O Lord, you will hear the desire of the meek;
    you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear
¹⁸ to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed,
    so that those from earth may strike terror no more.^[a]