---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 10
verse_count: 18
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 10, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 10

*David professeth his confidence in God.*

**1** Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
**2** The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
**3** For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
**4** The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts,.
**5** His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
**6** For he hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved, never in adversity.
**7** His mouth is full of cursing and deceit; and his heart is full of fraud; and under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
**8** 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.
**9** He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
**10** He croucheth to the strong ones, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his devices.
**11** He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten; he hideth his face; he will never see it.
**12** Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand; forget not the humble.
**13** The wicked contemn God; wherefore he doth say in his heart, Thou wilt not require iniquity at my hand.
**14** O Lord, thou hast seen all this, for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite with thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
**15** O Lord, thou wilt break the arm of the wicked, and of the evil; and seek out his wickedness until thou find none that remain.
**16** And the Lord shall be king for ever and ever over his people; for the wicked shall perish out oi his land.
**17** Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble; thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
**18** To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.