Psalms 10:17
The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!
18To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress — man of the earth!
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:18'O Jehovah, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this to the age for the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee;
2 Chronicles 30:12Also, in Judah hath the hand of God been to give to them one heart to do the command of the king and of the heads, in the matter of Jehovah;
2 Chronicles 34:27Because thy heart [is] tender, and thou art humbled before God in thy hearing His words concerning this place, and concerning its inhabitants, and art humbled before Me, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me: even I also have heard — the affirmation of Jehovah.
Psalms 9:18For not for ever is the needy forgotten, The hope of the humble lost to the age.
Psalms 37:4And delight thyself on Jehovah, And He giveth to thee the petitions of thy heart.
Psalms 112:7Of an evil report he is not afraid, Prepared is His heart, confident in Jehovah.
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 →