Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.Seek — Search for it, and punish these wicked atheists.'Till — No such wickedness be left in the world, or at least in the church. read more
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.Is king — To whom it belongs to protect his subjects. Therefore his peoples case is never desperate, seeing he ever lives to help them.The heathen — The Canaanites; whom God, as king of the world, expelled, and gave their land to his people. By which great example he confirms his faith and hope for the future.His land — Out of Canaan, which God calls his land, because he gave it to them, and fixed his presence and... read more
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:Prepare — By thy grace and good spirit, that they may so pray as thou wilt hear. read more
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. To judge — To give sentence for them, and against their enemies.The man — Earthly and mortal men, who yet presume to contend with thee their maker. read more
1. Why Not a demand for the reason of delay, but a plaintive appeal for help. Afar off… hidest… thyself Not literally, but in appearance seemest to hide thyself. read more
2. Wicked The man who breaks law and departs from right with knowledge and of set purpose. The term is used five times in the psalm. It is not an ideal picture, but a living description of an actual state of society under the misrule and outrages of the worst conceivable men. Poor This is the oppressed class, the opposite of the “wicked.” The title includes the ideas both of humble and afflicted; and under different original words is given seven times. Called, also, the “innocent,”... read more
3. Blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth Literally, he blesseth the covetous, and blasphemeth Jehovah. This preserves the antithesis. “Covetous,” here, is not only the man of evil desire, but the man that robs and commits violence to gratify it. read more
4. Will not seek He takes no pains to inquire if there be a God, or a moral government which holds men accountable. Thoughts Devices, schemes. In all his plans he makes no account or recognition of God. read more
5. Grievous Rather, firm, sure, prosperous, as the true etymology would give it. See Hebrew of Job 20:21. This also agrees with what follows. Thy judgments are far above out of his sight Divine judgments are delayed. God suffers the plans of “the wicked,” for a time, to succeed, and as retribution is beyond the reach of his sensible vision, he seems to himself to be prosperous and safe. His enemies, he puffeth at them An expression of scorn. He treats all opposition with contempt and... read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 10:14
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.Requite — Heb. to give (to restore or pay the mischief which they have done to others) with thy hand, by thy own extraordinary providence, because the oppressed were destitute of all other succours.Fatherless — Of such as have no friend or helper, one kind of them being put for all. read more