Psalm 10:1

New English Translation

Why, Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you pay no attention during times of trouble?

Cross References

Job 13:24

Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

Job 23:9

In the north when he is at work, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I see no trace of him.

Job 34:29

But if God is quiet, who can condemn him? If he hides his face, then who can see him? Yet he is over the individual and the nation alike,

Psalm 22:1

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.

Psalm 27:9

Do not reject me! Do not push your servant away in anger! You are my deliverer! Do not forsake or abandon me, O God who vindicates me!

Psalm 30:7

O Lord, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.

Psalm 44:24

Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?

Psalm 44:25

For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.

Psalm 46:1

God is our strong refuge; he is truly our helper in times of trouble.

Psalm 88:14

O Lord, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

Jeremiah 14:8

You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

Jeremiah 14:9

Why should you be like someone who is helpless, like a champion who cannot save anyone? You are indeed with us, and we belong to you. Do not abandon us!”