Psalm 10:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Thou hast

Hebrews 4:13

For thou

Habakkuk 1:13

To requite

Joel 3:4

The poor

Committeth

Isaiah 10:3

Jeremiah 49:11

Helper

General references

Exodus 21:26

Lamentations 3:60

Bible References

Thou hast

You saw it, Lord; do not be silent.
Lord, do not be far from me.

The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
observing the wicked and the good.

for My gaze takes in all their ways. They are not concealed from Me, and their guilt is not hidden from My sight.

Can a man hide himself in secret places where I cannot see him?”—the Lord’s declaration. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?”—the Lord’s declaration.

No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.

For thou

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,
and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
So why do You tolerate those who are treacherous?
Why are You silent
while one who is wicked swallows up
one who is more righteous than himself?

To requite

Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done.” They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

‘As surely as I saw the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons yesterday’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘so will I repay you on this plot of land’—this is the Lord’s declaration. So now, according to the word of the Lord, pick him up and throw him on the plot of land.”

may You hear in heaven and act.
May You judge Your servants,
condemning the wicked man by bringing
what he has done on his own head
and providing justice for the righteous
by rewarding him according to his righteousness.

for a destroyer is coming against her,
against Babylon.
Her warriors will be captured,
their bows shattered,
for the Lord is a God of retribution;
He will certainly repay.

And also: Tyre, Sidon, and all the territories of Philistia—what are you to Me? Are you paying Me back or trying to get even with Me? I will quickly bring retribution on your heads.

The poor

Cast your burden on the Lord,
and He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me

until that day.

So those who suffer according to God’s will should, while doing what is good, entrust themselves to a faithful Creator.

casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you.

Committeth

What will you do on the day of punishment
when devastation comes from far away?
Who will you run to for help?
Where will you leave your wealth?

Abandon your fatherless; I will preserve them;
let your widows trust in Me.

Helper

God in His holy dwelling is
a father of the fatherless
and a champion of widows.

The Lord protects foreigners
and helps the fatherless and the widow,
but He frustrates the ways of the wicked.

He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Assyria will not save us,
we will not ride on horses,
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’
to the work of our hands.
For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”

General references

“When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye.

You see all their malice,
all their plots against me.