Menu

PSALMS

As Written in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer

Presented By the

ANGLICAN PROVINCE OF AMERICA

www.anglicanprovince.org

Today is Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Today is Tuesday after Advent 2
Season of Advent

The liturgical color of the day is PURPLE

Aa Aa

The Tenth Psalm

Ut quid, Domine?


WHY standest thou so far off, O LORD, * and hidest thy face in the needful time of trouble?

The ungodly, for his own lust, doth persecute the poor: * let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined.
 
For the ungodly hath made boast of his own heart's desire, * and speaketh good of the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
 
The ungodly is so proud, that he careth not for God, * neither is God in all his thoughts.
 
His ways are alway grievous; * thy judgments are far above out of his sight, and therefore defieth he all his enemies.
 
For he hath said in his heart, Tush, I shall never be cast down, * there shall no harm happen unto me.
 
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and fraud; * under his tongue is ungodliness and vanity.
 
He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, * and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor.
 
For he lieth waiting secretly; even as a lion lurketh he in his den, * that he may ravish the poor.
 
He doth ravish the poor, * when he getteth him into his net.
 
He falleth down, and humbleth himself, * that the congregation of the poor may fall into the hands of his captains.
 
He hath said in his heart, Tush, God hath forgotten; * he hideth away his face, and he will never see it.
 
Arise, O LORD God, and lift up thine hand; * forget not the poor.
 
Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God, * while he doth say in his heart, Tush, thou God carest not for it?
 
Surely thou hast seen it; * for thou beholdest ungodliness and wrong, that thou mayest take the matter into thy hand.
 
The poor committeth himself unto thee; * for thou art the helper of the friendless.
 
Break thou the power of the ungodly and malicious; * search out his ungodliness, until thou find none.
 
The LORD is King for ever and ever, * and the heathen are perished out of the land.
 
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; * thou preparest their heart, and thine ear hearkeneth;
 
To help the fatherless and poor unto their right, * that the man of the earth be no more exalted against them.