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LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless.
    Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.
You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed, 
   so mere people can no longer terrify them.

Psalm 10:17-18

But they delight in the law of the LORD,
   meditating on it day and night.
They are like trees planted along the riverbank,
    bearing fruit each season.
Their leaves never wither, 
   and they prosper in all they do.
Psalm 1:2-3

• Psalms=Tehillim (Hebrew), Psalmoi/Psalterion (Greek Septuagint) 
• Psalm 10:7–Their mouths are full of cursing, lies, and threats. Trouble and evil are on the tips of their tongues. 
• Curses, lies and threats were the three most common weapons of the tongue employed by ancient Near Eastern peoples. They thought they could manipulate supernatural powers with ritual words and actions in order to achieve the destruction of their enemies and they maintained a large conventional stock of magic curses. The Israelites, though influenced by culture, sought a personal God through personal prayer and a knowledge of the one true sovereign God. 
• God sees out injustice and hears our prayers.
• LORD, you know the hopes of the helpless.
      Surely you will hear their cries and comfort them.
  You will bring justice to the orphans and the oppressed,
      so mere people can no longer terrify them.
  ‍Psalm 10:17-18

Trust that God is a God of justice. Seek justice on earth when appropriate, while remembering ultimate justice if from God.