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The prayer “Why do you stand far off, LORD?”

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Psalm 10:1–18: the text says, “Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD. The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them. He says in his heart, ‘I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.’ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net. The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength. He says in his heart, ‘God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.’ Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless. Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, ‘God won’t call me into account’? But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none. The LORD is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land. LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.” The Korean Revised Version reads at 10:2 저희로 자기의 베푼 꾀에 빠지게 하소서, a prayer that they fall into the schemes they devised, where WEB reads “They are caught in the schemes that they devise”; at 10:3 탐리하는 자는 여호와를 배반하여 멸시하나이다, the greedy one turns against the LORD and despises him, where WEB reads “He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD”; at 10:4 it has the wicked say 여호와께서 이를 감찰치 아니하신다, the LORD will not look into it, words WEB 10:4 does not have; and at 10:16 열방이 주의 땅에서 멸망하였나이다, in the past tense and with 주의 땅, the Lord’s land, where WEB reads “The nations will perish out of his land.”

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PSA 10:1–18, engwebp
¹Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
²In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
³For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD.
⁴The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
⁵His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
⁶He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”
⁷His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
⁸He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
⁹He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.
¹⁰The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
¹¹He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
¹²Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
¹³Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?
¹⁴But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
¹⁶The LORD is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
¹⁷LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
¹⁸to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
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Current wording: Psalm 10:1–18: the text says, “Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD. The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them. He says in his heart, ‘I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.’ His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net. The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength. He says in his heart, ‘God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.’ Arise, LORD! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless. Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, ‘God won’t call me into account’? But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none. The LORD is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land. LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.” The Korean Revised Version reads at 10:2 저희로 자기의 베푼 꾀에 빠지게 하소서, a prayer that they fall into the schemes they devised, where WEB reads “They are caught in the schemes that they devise”; at 10:3 탐리하는 자는 여호와를 배반하여 멸시하나이다, the greedy one turns against the LORD and despises him, where WEB reads “He blesses the greedy and condemns the LORD”; at 10:4 it has the wicked say 여호와께서 이를 감찰치 아니하신다, the LORD will not look into it, words WEB 10:4 does not have; and at 10:16 열방이 주의 땅에서 멸망하였나이다, in the past tense and with 주의 땅, the Lord’s land, where WEB reads “The nations will perish out of his land.”
Cited evidence: PSA 10:1–18, engwebp
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