The Perils of the Pilgrim 1 UDB Yahweh, why do you keep yourself far away from us? Why do you not pay attention when we have troubles? BSB BSB: Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
2 UDB Proud, wicked people have a terrible desire within them to make poor people suffer. God, make them fall into their own traps, so that what they did to others may be done to them! BSB BSB: In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
3 UDB The wicked person boasts about the evil things he wants to do. He desires to own the things that others have, and he does not want them to own more things than he has. He boasts about all the things he owns, while he curses you, Yahweh. BSB BSB: For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
4 UDB The wicked person is so proud he never looks for God and if he did look for God, he would not find him. He is too proud to even think about God. BSB BSB: In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
5 UDB But, looking at the life of the wicked man, it seems that everything he does is successful. He cannot even understand your commands, God, and then he mocks his enemies. BSB BSB: He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
6 UDB In his mind he thinks, "Nothing bad can happen to me! As long as I live, I will never have troubles." BSB BSB: He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
7 UDB When he speaks, he always curses and tells lies, and he makes threats against others. When he talks, he only speaks about hurting or destroying other people. BSB BSB: His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
8 UDB He makes plans to attack the people living in the villages, people who have done nothing wrong. He waits in places where he can hide while he keeps looking for more people he can attack, people who cannot defend themselves. BSB BSB: He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
9 UDB He waits for his victims like a lion who crouches down, and just like the lion, he hides in the bushes. He is like the hunter who spreads out the net so he can catch helpless people and drag them away. BSB BSB: He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
10 UDB The helpless people are crushed by the wicked person's plans and all the things he does. He is powerful, and when he opposes the helpless people, he always takes away from them whatever he wants. BSB BSB: They are crushed and beaten down; the helpless fall prey to his strength.
11 UDB The wicked person says, "God cannot remember what I did. His eyes are covered, and he cannot see anything that I have done." BSB BSB: He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
12 UDB Yahweh, arise! God, strike him down! Do not forget those who are suffering! BSB BSB: Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
13 UDB Why does the most wicked person curse you, God, and turn away from you? Does he think, "God can never punish me"? BSB BSB: Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
14 UDB God, you do see the trouble and the distress that the wicked person causes. And you will strike the wicked man and punish him for all that he does. BSB BSB: But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 UDB God, destroy the power of the person who is wicked and evil! Make him pay for those evil things he did, those things that he thought God would not find out about him. BSB BSB: Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
16 UDB Yahweh is king forever! He will drive out foreign people from his land. BSB BSB: The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
17 UDB Yahweh, when the people who suffer cry out to you, you listen. You hear them when they pray and you encourage them. BSB BSB: You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
18 UDB You defend the orphans and the people who have great need, so that human beings—all of them live their lives and then they die— would not be able to cause fear any longer. BSB BSB: to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
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