Psalms 10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Bible Comments
  • Psalms 10:1 open_in_new

    Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in (a) times of trouble?

    (a) As soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.

  • Psalms 10:3 open_in_new

    For the wicked (b) boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

    (b) The wicked man rejoices in his own lust he boasts when he has that he would; he brags of his wit and wealth and blesses himself and thus blasphemes the Lord.

  • Psalms 10:6 open_in_new

    He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] (c) never [be] in adversity.

    (c) The evil will not touch me, (Isaiah 28:15) or else he speaks thus because he never felt evil.

  • Psalms 10:8 open_in_new

    (d) He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

    (d) He shows that the wicked have many ways to hide their cruelty and therefore should be even more feared.

  • Psalms 10:10 open_in_new

    He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the (e) poor may fall by his strong ones.

    (e) By the hypocrisy of them who have authority the poor are devoured.

  • Psalms 10:12 open_in_new

    (f) Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

    (f) He calls to God for help, because wickedness is so far overgrown that God must help now or never.

  • Psalms 10:13 open_in_new

    Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not (g) require [it].

    (g) Therefore you must punish their blasphemy.

  • Psalms 10:14 open_in_new

    Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to (h) requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

    (h) To judge between the right and the wrong.

  • Psalms 10:15 open_in_new

    Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou find (i) none.

    (i) For you have utterly destroyed him.

  • Psalms 10:16 open_in_new

    The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the (k) heathen are perished out of his land.

    (k) The hypocrites or such as live not after God's law, will be destroyed.

  • Psalms 10:18 open_in_new

    (l) To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

    (l) God helps when man's help ceases.