Psalm 10 is the cry of a righteous man against a wicked man attacking him. The names “wicked” and “poor” and their synonyms are singular in number, with the exception of verses 2b (them), 10b (helpless, NKJV), 12b (humble) and 17 (humble, their heart), and in these verses the psalmist is applying to himself principles of God’s righteousness that are universally true. Thus, in verse 2, The wicked man in his pride persecutes the poor man. Let them (that is, all wicked men among whom my enemy is one) be caught in the plots which they have devised. In verse 10, the psalmist complains of a wicked man who not only lies in wait for him, but for other afflicted ones as well: He lies low that the helpless ones may fall by his strength. Verse 12 is a petition that the Lord not forget the humble ones, among whom now the psalmist finds himself, and verse 17 is an assurance that the Lord hears the humble and, therefore, will also hear the psalmist himself.
Our Lord Jesus Christ often found himself in circumstances such as those described here. The wicked men who persecuted him were always telling themselves, I shall not be moved (v. 6). They lurked for him in the villages to which he went to preach the gospel to the poor (vv. 8-10). Secretly they renounced God while publicly they confessed him (v. 13). Our Lord dealt with such persecution by committing himself to his Father: LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble (v. 17). He experienced all the suffering that we endure and was tempted just as we are tempted.
But our Lord Jesus Christ is also the LORD who hears the desire of the humble and will do justice for the fatherless and oppressed (v. 18) when he returns again in judgment. He observes our trouble and grief (v. 14). He is the king who will drive the wicked out of his inheritance (v. 16). He will deliver his own from the man of earth who oppresses (v. 18b).
This is yet another psalm from which we learn that we come to the throne of grace and find there one touched with the feeling of our infirmities and able to help because he has passed through the heavens to sit at the right hand of the majesty on high. He is the one who in the days of his flesh, offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save him from death, and was heard because of his godly fear (Heb. 5:7). And He is now the one able to save those to the uttermost who come unto God through him because he ever lives to make intercession for them (Heb. 7:25).