somesaypip

Life for an Aussie chick in North West Cambodia. Local work in sports, education and development.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

A Psalm 10 Day

I'm having a Psalm 10 day today...when it feels like the corrupt win and the only hope is for God to bust in and break some arms. This is a mixed-up, edited version of the Psalm taken from the New Living Translation-

O LORD, why do you stand so far away?
Proud and wicked people viciously oppress the poor.
They brag about their evil desires;
they praise the greedy and curse the LORD.

They seem to think that God is dead.
Yet they succeed in everything they do.

They say to themselves, “God isn’t watching!

Nothing bad will ever happen to us!
He will never notice!
We will be free of trouble forever!"

The helpless are overwhelmed and collapse;
they fall beneath the strength of the wicked.

Break the arms of these wicked, evil people!

Go after them!
Do not forget the helpless!
You are the defender of orphans.

You do see the trouble and grief.
You take note of it.

LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless.
Surely you will listen to their cries and comfort them.
You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed.
The helpless put their trust in you.

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