Why standest thou so far off, O Lord: and hidest thy face in the
needful time of trouble?
2 The ungodly for his own lust doth persecute the poor: let them
be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined.
3 For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire: and
speaketh good of the covetous, whom God abhorreth.
4 The ungodly is so proud, that he careth not for God: neither is
God in all his thoughts.
5 His ways are alway grievous: thy judgements are far above out of
his sight, and therefore defieth he all his enemies.
6 For he hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall never be cast down:
there shall no harm happen unto me.
7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and fraud: under his tongue
is ungodliness and vanity.
8 He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets: and
privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes
are set against the poor.
9 For he lieth waiting secretly, even as a lion lurketh he in his
den: that he may ravish the poor.