Catholic Public Domain Version
" I trust in the Lord. How can you say to my soul, “Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow.” "
— Psalms 10:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.”
“In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. ”
“In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.”
“The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.”
“In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.”
“The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.”
“The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.”
Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
I trust in the Lord. How can you say to my soul, “Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow.”
For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.
For they have destroyed the things that you have completed. But what has the just one done?
The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes look upon the poor. His eyelids question the sons of men.