ל [La′medh]*
10 Why, O Jehovah, do you keep standing afar off?+
2 In his haughtiness the wicked one hotly pursues the afflicted one;+
They get caught by the ideas that they have thought up.+
3 For the wicked has praised himself over the selfish longing of his soul,+
And the one making undue profit+ has blessed himself;
נ [Nun]
He has disrespected Jehovah.+
5 His ways keep prospering* all the time.+
Your judicial decisions are high up out of his range;+
As for all those showing hostility to him, he puffs at them.+
6 He has said in his heart: “I shall not be made to totter;+
For generation after generation [I shall be] one who is in no calamity.”+
פ [Peʼ]
7 His mouth is full of oaths and of deceptions and of oppression.+
Under his tongue are trouble and what is hurtful.+
8 He sits in an ambush of settlements;*
From concealed places he will kill someone innocent.+
ע [ʽA′yin]
9 He keeps lying in wait in the concealed place like a lion in his covert.+
He keeps lying in wait+ to carry off some afflicted one by force.
He carries off the afflicted one by force when he draws his net shut.+
11 He has said in his heart:+ “God has forgotten.+
He has concealed his face.+
He will certainly never see [it].”+
ק [Qohph]
13 Why is it that the wicked one has disrespected God?*+
He has said in his heart: “You will not require an accounting.”+
ר [Rehsh]
14 For you yourself have seen trouble and vexation.
You keep looking on, to get [them] into your hand.+
To you the unfortunate+ one, the fatherless boy, commits [himself].
You yourself have become [his] helper.+
ש [Shin]
15 Break the arm of the wicked and bad one.+
May you search after his wickedness [until] you find no more.+
ת [Taw]