Psalms 10:17
You have listened to afflicted/suffering people when they cry out to you. You hear them when they pray, and you encourage [IDM] them.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
16Yahweh, you are our king forever, but wicked nations will disappear from the earth.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:18Yahweh, the God whom our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob worshiped, I desire/hope that your people will continue to desire to do things like this forever, and that they will always be loyal to you.
2 Chronicles 30:12Also in Judah God motivated the people to be united in wanting to do what Yahweh wanted them to do, which is what the king and his officials had told them to do in the message that they sent.
2 Chronicles 34:27“Because you heeded what was written in the scroll, and you humbled yourself when you heard what I said to warn about what would happen to this city and the people who live here, and because you tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you.
Psalms 9:18But you will not forget those who are needy/poor; what they confidently expect will certainly happen.
Psalms 37:4Be delighted with all that Yahweh does for you; if you do that, he will give you the things that you desire most.
Psalms 112:7They are not afraid of receiving bad news; they confidently/completely trust in Yahweh.
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 →