Tag: God Watches the Wicked and Watches over the Righteous - Psalm 9-11

Psalms 10:12-15

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand;

forget not the afflicted.

Why does the wicked renounce God

and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”?

But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation,

that you may take it into your hands;

to you the helpless commits himself;

you have been the helper of the fatherless.

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer;

call his wickedness to account till you find none.

Tag:  God is Watching and Correcting the Wicked

Perhaps the hardest thought for a believer to wrap their mind around is contained in the above passage.   In Psalm 10, David is crying out to God about the wicked.  He is specifically pointing out to God (as thought God were blind to it all) that the wicked person in his life is just mocking God.   This wicked person David is referring to is crushing David and other “righteous” people, but, as it appears to David, God is doing nothing.   This wicked person seems to be able to run his mouth, deceived the masses and oppress the poor (those who can’t defend themselves).   Notice what David writes in the two verses just before the above verses:

Psalms 10:10-11

The helpless are crushed, sink down,

and fall by his might.

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten,

he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”

Despite this observation, God wants us to believe what David writes in vs. 12-15.   In the above passage for today we read that God DOES see the wicked and WILL NOT allow the wicked to go unpunished or uncorrected.   David writes, “But you do see ...”.   This is a truth all believers have to realize and take into account.  God has not closed His eyes to the hurt of the helpless.  God DOES see.  And, since He sees He will rise to action.  It may not be in our time frame.   It may not be the way we want God to respond.   But, God will and is responding.  Living by faith is trusting in verses 12-15 despite the hurt of verses 1-10.   God DOES see the wicked mock and curse and crush the innocent.   God WILL do something about and, indeed, is doing something about it.  We can trust Psalm 10 to be carried out in the world around us.  Note how the psalm ends:

Psalm 10:17-18

O Lord, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear to to justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.