Rework Ps 10 UDB

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 \q2 Why do you not pay attention when we have troubles?
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-\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!
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-\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.
 
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-\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. 
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-\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.
 
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-\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."
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-\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.
 
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-\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.
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-\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.
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-\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. 
 
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-\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."
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-\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!
 
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-\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"?
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-\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.
 
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-\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. 
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-\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.
 
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-\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.
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-\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.