Psalms 10:17
LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
16The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations are perished out of His land.
18To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:18O LORD, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever, even the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and direct their heart unto Thee;
2 Chronicles 30:12Also in Judah was the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 34:27because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest His words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before Me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before Me; I also have heard thee, saith the LORD.
Psalms 9:18(9-19) For the needy shall not alway be forgotten, nor the expectation of the poor perish for ever.
Psalms 37:4So shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and He shall give thee the petitions of thy heart.
Psalms 112:7He shall not be afraid of evil tidings; his heart is stedfast, trusting in the 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 →