A Prayer for the Overthrow of the Wicked.

10 Why (A)do You stand far away, Lord?
Why (B)do You hide [a]Yourself in times of trouble?

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  1. Psalm 10:1 Or Your eyes

Psalm 10[a]

Why, Lord, do you stand far off?(A)
    Why do you hide yourself(B) in times of trouble?

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  1. Psalm 10:1 Psalms 9 and 10 may originally have been a single acrostic poem in which alternating lines began with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. In the Septuagint they constitute one psalm.

The wicked, [a]in his haughtiness, (A)does not seek Him.
(B)There is no God in all his schemes.

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  1. Psalm 10:4 Lit the height of his nose

In his pride the wicked man does not seek him;
    in all his thoughts there is no room for God.(A)

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