The Righteous One Detailing Earth’s Wickedness in Anticipation of Earth’s Deliverance
 
It is often a perplexity to the Christian, when he sees the wicked gaining ascendancy, and the poor being oppressed and abused. Seemingly, the wicked appear not to be held accountable, and fulfil their evil designs with impunity. David queries in v. 1 why God does not take action. Why does He not redress the injustice and exploitation?

But then he acknowledges that though the wicked think, “God will never see” (v. 11) their scandalous behaviour - yet, “thou hast seen it” (v. 14). And he knows that God, having seen, He will act, He will punish, and He will minister to the fatherless. After all, pure religion and undefiled is to visit the fatherless and the widow, and will not the Author of this pure religion come to their relief?
 

Psalm 10

  1  Wherefore is it that thou, O Lord,
         dost stand from us afar?
      And wherefore hidest thou thyself,
         when times so troublous are?

   2  The wicked in his loftiness
         doth persecute the poor:
      In these devices they have framed
         let them be taken sure.

   3  The wicked of his heart's desire
         doth talk with boasting great;
      He blesseth him that's covetous,
         whom yet the Lord doth hate.

   4  The wicked, through his pride of face,
         on God he doth not call;
      And in the counsels of his heart
         the Lord is not at all.

   5  His ways they always grievous are;
         thy judgments from his sight
      Removed are: at all his foes
         he puffeth with despight.

   6  Within his heart he thus hath said,
         I shall not moved be;
      And no adversity at all
         shall ever come to me.

   7  His mouth with cursing, fraud, deceit,
         is filled abundantly;
      And underneath his tongue there is
         mischief and vanity.

   8  He closely sits in villages;
         he slays the innocent:
      Against the poor that pass him by
         his cruel eyes are bent.

   9  He, lion-like, lurks in his den;
         he waits the poor to take;
      And when he draws him in his net,
         his prey he doth him make.

  10  Himself he humbleth very low,
         he croucheth down withal,
      That so a multitude of poor
         may by his strong ones fall.

  11  He thus hath said within his heart,
         The Lord hath quite forgot;
      He hides his countenance, and he
         for ever sees it not.

  12  O Lord, do thou arise; O God,
         lift up thine hand on high:
      Put not the meek afflicted ones
         out of thy memory.

  13  Why is it that the wicked man
         thus doth the Lord despise?
      Because that God will it require
         he in his heart denies.

  14  Thou hast it seen; for their mischief
         and spite thou wilt repay:
      The poor commits himself to thee;
         thou art the orphan's stay.

  15  The arm break of the wicked man,
         and of the evil one;
      Do thou seek out his wickedness,
         until thou findest none.

  16  The Lord is King through ages all,
         ev'n to eternity;
      The heathen people from his land
         are perished utterly.

  17  O Lord, of those that humble are
         thou the desire didst hear;
      Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou
         to hear wilt bend thine ear;

  18  To judge the fatherless, and those
         that are oppressed sore;
      That man, that is but sprung of earth,
         may them oppress no more.