diff --git a/19-PSA/010.usfm b/19-PSA/010.usfm index 3089bf46..07eb14ca 100644 --- a/19-PSA/010.usfm +++ b/19-PSA/010.usfm @@ -8,77 +8,89 @@ \q2 Why do you not pay attention when we have troubles? \b \q1 -\v 2 People who are proud eagerly cause poor people to suffer. -\q2 So cause what they do to others to happen to them, like traps that catch the very people who have set them for others! +\v 2 Proud, wicked people, have a terrible desire within them to make poor people suffer. +\q2 God!, make them fall into their own traps, so that what they did to others may be done to them! \q1 -\v 3 They boast about the evil things that they want to do. -\q2 They praise people who take from others things that do not belong to them, and they curse you, Yahweh. +\v 3 The wicked person boasts about the evil things he wants to do. +\q2 He desires to own the things that others have, and he doesn't want them to own more things than he has. +\q2 He boasts about all the things he owns, while he curses you, Yahweh. \s5 \q1 -\v 4 The wicked people are very proud. -\q2 So they do not ask God for help; -\q2 they do not even think about him. +\v 4 The wicked person is so proud +\q2 he never looks for God +\q2 and if he did look for God, he would not find him. +\q2 He is too proud to even think about God. \q1 -\v 5 But it seems that they succeed in everything that they do. -\q2 The things that you have commanded are too difficult for him to understand; -\q2 they mock their enemies. +\v 5 But, looking at the life of the wicked man, +\q2 it seems that everything he does is successful. +\q2 He cannot even understand your commands, God, +\q2 and then he mocks his enemies. \s5 \q1 -\v 6 In their minds they think, "Nothing bad will happen to us! -\q2 We will never have troubles!" +\v 6 In his mind he thinks, "Nothing bad can happen to me! +\q2 As long as I live, I will never have troubles." \q1 -\v 7 When they talk, they are always cursing, lying, and threatening to harm others. -\q2 They constantly say evil things that show that they are ready to do evil and immoral things. +\v 7 When he speaks he always curses and tells lies, +\q2 and he makes threats against others. +\q2 When he talks, he only speaks about hurting or destroying other people. \s5 \q1 -\v 8 They hide in villages, ready to attack innocent people. -\q2 They constantly search for people who will not be able to resist them. +\v 8 He makes plans to attack the people living in the villages, people who have done nothing wrong. +\q2 He waits in places where he can hide +\q2 while he keeps looking for more people he can attack, +\q2 people who cannot defend themselves. \q1 -\v 9 They are like lions that crouch down and hide, -\q2 waiting to pounce on some animal. -\q2 They are like hunters who catch helpless people like animals with a net and then drag them away. +\v 9 He waits for his victims like a lion who crouches down, +\q2 and just like the lion, he hides in the bushes. +\q2 He is like the hunter who spreads out the net +\q2 so he can catch helpless people and drag them away. \b \q1 -\v 10 Just like helpless animals that are crushed, -\q2 people who cannot defend themselves are killed because wicked people overpower them. +\v 10 The helpless people are crushed by the wicked person's plans +\q2 and all the things he does. +\q2 He is powerful, and when he opposes the helpless people, +\q2 he always takes away from them whatever he wants. \s5 \q1 -\v 11 The wicked people say, "God will not pay any attention to what we do. -\q2 His eyes are covered, and he cannot see anything." +\v 11 The wicked person says, "God cannot remember what I did. +\q2 His eyes are covered, and he cannot see anything that I have done." \b \q1 -\v 12 Yahweh, arise! God, help us with your power! +\v 12 Yahweh, arise! God, strike him down! \q2 Do not forget those who are suffering! \s5 \q1 -\v 13 Wicked people are always insulting you. -\q2 They think, "God will never punish us!" +\v 13 Why does the most wicked person curse you, God, and turn away from you? +\q2 Does he think, "God can never punish me"? \q1 -\v 14 But you see the trouble and the distress that they cause. -\q2 People who are suffering expect that you will help them, -\q2 and you help orphans, also. +\v 14 God, you do see the trouble and the distress that the wicked person causes. +\q2 And you will strike the wicked man and punish him for all that he does. \s5 \q1 -\v 15 Destroy the power of wicked and evil people! -\q2 Continue to pursue and punish them for the wicked things that they do until they stop doing those things. +\v 15 God, you destroy the power of the wicked person +\q2 and the strength of the evil person! +\q2 Make the wicked person pay for the evil things he has done! +\q2 Make him pay for those evil things he did, +\q2 those thingas for which he never thought God would punish him. \b \q1 -\v 16 Yahweh, you are our king forever, -\q2 and you will drive out the foreign people groups from his land. +\v 16 Yahweh is king forever! +\q2 He will drive out foreign people from his land. \s5 \q1 -\v 17 You have listened to suffering people when they cry out to you. -\q2 You hear them when they pray, and you encourage them. +\v 17 Yahweh, when the people who suffer cry out to you, you listen. +\q2 You hear them when they pray and you encourage them. \q1 -\v 18 You defend the orphans and oppressed people from strong people who wish to harm them -\q2 so that no one has to worry or be terrified anymore. +\v 18 You defend the orphans and oppressed people +\q2 when the strong and the wicked work to do them harm. +\q2 And so, no one has to worry or be terrified anymore.