In the tenth Psalm we were told of the exceedingly wicked people among whom the God-awakened Jews will be in the day of which the Psalms tell.
Let us remember that the Psalms were written for the children of Israel in view of the time now very near when the Lord Jesus will have called away the Christians (true ones, none of the mere professors) to His heavenly home, and when after that, the Holy Spirit will have reached the consciences and hearts of some of the Jews then in Jerusalem and the Holy Land, so that they will be looking for the Lord to set up His kingdom.
The Psalms do not, in general, express the Spirit-taught feelings of Christians.
Psalms 1 to 5 give the thoughts and the feelings of these Jews in the difficult and perilous times pictured in Psalms 9 and 10. Their godless neighbors may taunt them with their lack of numbers and of influence and power, but they answer,
"In the Lord put I my trust; how say ye to my soul, flee as a bird to your mountain"?
Yet these poor Jewish believers see that they are drawing near to the end of everything;
"If the foundations be destroyed," say they, "what can the righteous do?"
Faith has its answer, however, in verses 4-7. The Lord is over all; above the sin and the conflict, between the forces of Satan and the people of God, is He whose eyes behold, whose eyelids try the children of men.
Let us particularly note verse 5, though every one of these verses calls for study "The Lord trieth the righteous."
This is ever true; He loves His people too well to give them always an easy time as they live their life in the world. He is far more painstaking than we really understand. God is trying, or training them for eternity; they must be in character suited for the home He has for them, and even now should be (see Hebrews 12:1010For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. (Hebrews 12:10)). Because Christians do not understand this, or forget what is shown again and again through the Bible, they sometimes complain and even feel very wrongly that God is against them.