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Psalm 10:1-3
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A Prayer for Help

1 Why are you far away, Lord?
Why do you hide yourself
    when I am in trouble?
2 Proud and brutal people
    hunt down the poor.
But let them get caught
    by their own evil plans!

3 The wicked brag about
    their deepest desires.
Those greedy people hate
    and curse you, Lord.

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Psalm 10:1-3
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Psalm 10[a]

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

2 In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak,(C)
    who are caught in the schemes he devises.
3 He boasts(D) about the cravings of his heart;
    he blesses the greedy and reviles the Lord.(E)

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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.
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