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Psalm 10:14

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

12Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
13Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?
14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
16The LORD is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
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Notice

“But you do see” answers the wicked person’s claim that God overlooks wrongdoing, giving weight to trouble and grief that others may dismiss.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 68:5A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.Both passages name the fatherless as people God helps, with Psalm 68 describing him as their father.
Job 11:11For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.Both texts speak of God seeing what happens: Psalm 10 names trouble and grief, while Job names iniquity.
Hosea 14:3Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”The fatherless receive help in Psalm 10 and find mercy in God in Hosea.
Psalm 109:31For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.Both passages describe God helping vulnerable people, with Psalm 109 naming his defense of the needy against those who judge them.
1 Peter 2:23When he was cursed, he didn’t curse back. When he suffered, he didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously.Both passages connect suffering with God’s action: the psalm names his help, and Peter describes Jesus entrusting himself to God’s judgment.
Psalm 146:9The LORD preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but he turns the way of the wicked upside down.Both psalms name God’s help for the fatherless, and Psalm 146 also describes his opposition to the wicked.
Psalm 55:22Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.Both passages speak of God’s care under hardship: he takes trouble in hand and sustains those who cast their burden on him.
Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.Both passages name God’s care for the fatherless, with Deuteronomy describing that care in terms of justice.
2 Chronicles 24:22Thus Joash the king didn’t remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, “May the LORD look at …The dying man asks the LORD to see and repay his murder; Psalm 10 affirms that God sees trouble and helps victims.
Job 5:15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.Both texts describe God helping people exposed to harm, with Job naming rescue of the needy from the mighty.
Jeremiah 49:11Leave your fatherless children. I will preserve them alive. Let your widows trust in me.”Both passages name God’s care for the fatherless, with Jeremiah speaking of preserving their lives.
1 Peter 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.Both passages speak of suffering in relation to God’s care; Peter urges those suffering while doing good to entrust themselves to him.
Where this verse fits

Grief. injustice and anger. feeling distant from God.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Name one person’s grief before God and ask his help

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Encouragement

The prayer for God to act continues around this verse; the trouble has not disappeared. Yet the claim stands: God sees grief and helps the victim and the fatherless.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).