14 But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, Is God in his holy habitation.
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, But the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
For this cause I suffer also these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.
There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don't I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.
For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
Yahweh's eyes are everywhere, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
You have seen it, Yahweh. Don't keep silent. Lord, don't be far from me.
then hear from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, requiting the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, says Yahweh; and I will requite you in this plat, says Yahweh. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat [of ground], according to the word of Yahweh.
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Commentary on Psalms 10 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 10
The Septuagint translation joins this psalm with the ninth, and makes them but one; but the Hebrew makes it a distinct psalm, and the scope and style are certainly different. In this psalm,
Psa 10:1-11
David, in these verses, discovers,
In singing this psalm and praying it over, we should have our hearts much affected with a holy indignation at the wickedness of the oppressors, a tender compassion of the miseries of the oppressed, and a pious zeal for the glory and honour of God, with a firm belief that he will, in due time, give redress to the injured and reckon with the injurious.
Psa 10:12-18
David here, upon the foregoing representation of the inhumanity and impiety of the oppressors, grounds an address to God, wherein observe,
In singing these verses we must commit religion's just but injured cause to God, as those that are heartily concerned for its honour and interests, believing that he will, in due time, plead it with jealousy.