Psalms 10:17
LORD, thou have heard the desire of the humble. Thou will prepare their heart, thou will cause thine ear to hear,
A Conservative Version
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In Context
16LORD is King forever and ever. The nations have perished out of his land.
18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may no more be appalling.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:18O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart to thee.
2 Chronicles 30:12Also the hand of God came upon Judah to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the rulers by the word of LORD.
2 Chronicles 34:27because thy heart was tender, and thou humbled thyself before God when thou heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled thyself before me, and have torn thy clothes, and wept before me, I
Psalms 9:18For a needy man shall not always be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish forever.
Psalms 37:4Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart.
Psalms 112:7He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, trusting in LORD.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 10:13-18
Prayer against Persecutors. 12 Arise, O Lord ; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. 16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are… Read the whole commentary →