Psalms

The Psalter is Israel’s hymnbook: lament, praise, thanksgiving, royal psalms, and wisdom. It trains the heart to speak to God in trouble and in joy, and it points ahead to the Messiah.

Author: David and others
Date: c. 1400–400 BC
Theme: Prayers and songs for every season of the life of faith.
Key verses: Psalm 23; Psalm 51; Psalm 119:105
Clementine Vulgate

Psalms 10

1In finem. Psalmus David. 2[In Domino confido; quomodo dicitis anim me: Transmigra in montem sicut passer? 3Quoniam ecce peccatores intenderunt arcum; paraverunt sagittas suas in pharetra, ut sagittent in obscuro rectos corde: 4quoniam qu perfecisti destruxerunt; justus autem, quid fecit? 5Dominus in templo sancto suo; Dominus in clo sedes ejus. Oculi ejus in pauperem respiciunt; palpebr ejus interrogant filios hominum. 6Dominus interrogat justum et impium; qui autem diligit iniquitatem, odit animam suam. 7Pluet super peccatores laqueos; ignis et sulphur, et spiritus procellarum, pars calicis eorum. 8Quoniam justus Dominus, et justitias dilexit: quitatem vidit vultus ejus.]

Clementine Vulgate (1592). Public domain or openly licensed historic text.