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A prayer for help[a]

10 Must you stand so far away, Lord?
    Why do you hide when there is trouble?
Wicked people are cruel to poor people.
They use their evil ideas
    to take hold of weak people.
Not only do wicked people boast
    because they get the things that they want.
They also praise robbers,
    and they curse the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:1 Psalm 10 continues on from Psalm 9. It continues with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, but not all the letters are there.

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

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

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