10 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

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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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Footnotes

  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.

22 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

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Psalm 22[a]

For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David.

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?(A)
    Why are you so far(B) from saving me,
    so far from my cries of anguish?(C)

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  1. Psalm 22:1 In Hebrew texts 22:1-31 is numbered 22:2-32.

Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.

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Do not hide your face(A) from me,
    do not turn your servant away in anger;(B)
    you have been my helper.(C)
Do not reject me or forsake(D) me,
    God my Savior.(E)

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13 How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

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Psalm 13[a]

For the director of music. A psalm of David.

How long,(A) Lord? Will you forget me(B) forever?
    How long will you hide your face(C) from me?
How long must I wrestle with my thoughts(D)
    and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
    How long will my enemy triumph over me?(E)

Look on me(F) and answer,(G) Lord my God.
    Give light to my eyes,(H) or I will sleep in death,(I)

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  1. Psalm 13:1 In Hebrew texts 13:1-6 is numbered 13:2-6.

O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

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You who are the hope(A) of Israel,
    its Savior(B) in times of distress,(C)
why are you like a stranger in the land,
    like a traveler who stays only a night?

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14 Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

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14 Why, Lord, do you reject(A) me
    and hide your face(B) from me?

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24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

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24 Why do you hide your face(A)
    and forget(B) our misery and oppression?(C)

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46 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

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Psalm 46[a]

For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth.[b] A song.

God is our refuge(A) and strength,(B)
    an ever-present(C) help(D) in trouble.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 46:1 In Hebrew texts 46:1-11 is numbered 46:2-12.
  2. Psalm 46:1 Title: Probably a musical term

Lord, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.

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Lord, when you favored me,
    you made my royal mountain[a] stand firm;
but when you hid your face,(A)
    I was dismayed.

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  1. Psalm 30:7 That is, Mount Zion

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

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24 Why do you hide your face(A)
    and consider me your enemy?(B)

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29 When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

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29 But if he remains silent,(A) who can condemn him?(B)
    If he hides his face,(C) who can see him?
Yet he is over individual and nation alike,(D)

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On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

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When he is at work in the north, I do not see him;
    when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.(A)

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