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9.20 :Arise, O, let not man prevail;
 * Let the nations be judged in Thy sight.
 * Set terror over them, O ;
 * Let the nations know they are but men.


 * Why standest Thou afar off, O ?
 * Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?
 * Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued,
 * They are taken in the devices that they have imagined.


 * For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,
 * And the covetous vaunteth himself, though he contemn the.
 * The wicked, in the pride of his countenance [, saith]: 'He will not require';
 * All his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'
 * His ways prosper at all times;
 * Thy judgments are far above out of his sight;
 * As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
 * He saith in his heart: 'I shall not be moved,
 * I who to all generations shall not be in adversity.'
 * His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression;
 * Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
 * He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;
 * In secret places doth he slay the innocent;
 * His eyes are on the watch for the helpless.
 * He lieth in wait in a secret place as a lion in his lair,
 * He lieth in wait to catch the poor;
 * He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him up in his net.
 * He croucheth, he boweth down,
 * And the helpless fall into his mighty claws.
 * He hath said in his heart: 'God hath forgotten;
 * He hideth His face; He will never see.'


 * Arise, O ; O God, lift up Thy hand;
 * Forget not the humble.
 * Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,
 * And say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?
 * Thou hast seen; for Thou beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite them with Thy hand;
 * Unto Thee the helpless committeth himself;
 * Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.


 * Break Thou the arm of the wicked;
 * And as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found.
 * The is King for ever and ever;
 * The nations are perished out of His land.


 * , Thou hast heard the desire of the humble:
 * Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;
 * To right the fatherless and the oppressed,
 * That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

For the Leader. [A Psalm] of David.


 * In the have I taken refuge;
 * How say ye to my soul: