Psalms 10:15

◄Break the arms/Destroy the power► of wicked [DOU] people! Continue to pursue and punish them for the wicked things that they do, until they stop doing those things.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

In Context

14But you see the trouble and the distress that they cause. People who are suffering expect that you will help them; and you help orphans, also.

16Yahweh, you are our king forever, but wicked nations will disappear from the earth.

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:12Therefore, this is what I, Yahweh, the God whom you Israeli people worship, say: I will the cause the people of Jerusalem and the rest of Judah to experience great disasters. It will be terrible, with the result that everyone who hears about it will be stunned [MTY].

Psalms 3:7Yahweh, arise! My God, come and rescue me again! You insult my enemies by slapping them on their cheeks; when you strike them, you break their teeth, with the result that they cannot hurt anyone [MET].

Psalms 37:17because Yahweh will completely take away the strength of wicked people, but he will ◄sustain/take care of► people who live righteously.

Ezekiel 23:48In that way I will cause them to stop their immoral behavior. It will warn other women to not imitate/do what you people of Jerusalem are doing.

Zephaniah 1:12It will be as though I will light lanterns to search in dark places in Jerusalem for those who have become very satisfied with their behavior and complacent about their sins. They think that I, Yahweh, will do nothing to them, neither good things nor bad things.

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 →

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