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Do Not Forget the Afflicted

Lamedh

10 [a]Why (A)do You stand afar off, O Yahweh?
Why (B)do You hide [b]Yourself in times of distress?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 10:1 This poem continues the acrostic pattern started in Ps 9
  2. 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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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.

11 (A)Be not far from me, for [a]distress is near;
For there is (B)none to help.

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  1. Psalm 22:11 Or trouble

11 Do not be far from me,(A)
    for trouble is near(B)
    and there is no one to help.(C)

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22 (A)You have seen it, O Yahweh, (B)do not keep silent;
O Lord, (C)do not be far from me.

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22 Lord, you have seen(A) this; do not be silent.
    Do not be far(B) from me, Lord.

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21 Do not forsake me, O Yahweh;
O my God, (A)do not be far from me!

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21 Lord, do not forsake me;(A)
    do not be far(B) from me, my God.

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