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Psalms 10:12
12Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.
Psalms 10:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Arise, O Lord! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Arise, O Lord! Punish the wicked, O God! Do not ignore the helpless!
Context of Psalms 10:12
10His victims are crushed, they collapse; they fall under his strength. 11He says to himself, “God will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.” Arise, Lord! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless. 13Why does the wicked man revile God? Why does he say to himself, “He won’t call me to account”? 14But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted; you consider their grief and take it in hand. The victims commit themselves to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.
Read all of Psalms 10Psalms 10:12 word by word
קוּמָ֤ה יְהוָ֗ה אֵ֭ל נְשָׂ֣א יָדֶ֑ךָ אַל־תִּשְׁכַּ֥ח עֲנָוִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 10:12
- Psalms 3:7Arise, Lord! Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 7:6Arise, Lord, in your anger; rise up against the rage of my enemies. Awake, my God; decree justice.
- Psalms 9:19Arise, Lord, do not let mortals triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
- Psalms 94:2Rise up, Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve.
- Isaiah 26:11Lord, your hand is lifted high, but they do not see it. Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
- Isaiah 33:10“Now will I arise,” says the Lord. “Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up.
- Micah 5:9Your hand will be lifted up in triumph over your enemies, and all your foes will be destroyed.
- Psalms 9:12For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cries of the afflicted.
- Psalms 13:1How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Psalms 77:9Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”
Commentaries on Psalms 10:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Arise, O Lord - Hear their reproaches see their guile, consider thy oppressed people. "Lift up thine hand," threaten them, that they may desist and repent. If they repent not let them be punished.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Arise, O Lord - See the note at Psalm 3:7. This commences the second part of the psalm, in which the author calls on God to remember those who were oppressed and wronged by the wicked. By suffering the wicked thus to carry on their plans, God seemed to be indifferent to human affairs, and the psalmist, therefore, invokes him to interpose, and to rescue the afflicted from their grasp. O God, lift up thine hand - As one does when he is about to strike, or…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-18Verses 12-18 The psalmist speaks with astonishment, at the wickedness of the wicked, and at the patience and forbearance of God. God prepares the heart for prayer, by kindling holy desires, and strengthening our most holy faith, fixing the thoughts, and raising the affections, and then he graciously accepts the prayer. The preparation of the heart is from the Lord, and we must seek unto him for it. Let the poor, afflicted, persecuted, or tempted believer…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12-15With confidence that the wicked will be held responsible for their deeds and that the Lord will care for the helpless, the psalmist prays intensely for rescue from evil.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. (Compare Psa 9:19; 3:7). the humble--(Compare Psa 10:17, and Margin.) lift up thine hand--exert thy power.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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