Psalm 10:1-2

Modern English Version

¹Why do You stand far off, O Lord?
Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

²In arrogance the wicked persecutes the poor;
let them be caught in the devices they have planned.

Psalm 10:1-2

New International Version

¹Why, Lord, do you stand far off?^(A)
Why do you hide yourself^(B) in times of trouble?

²In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,^(C)
who are caught in the schemes he devises.

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.

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