Psalms 10:1

Amplified Bible

Why do You stand far away, O LORD? Why do You hide [Yourself, veiling Your eyes] in times of trouble?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, why do you stand so far away?Why do you hide in times of trouble?

Hebrew Names Version
Why do you stand far off, LORD? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

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

English Standard Version
Why, O Lord , do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

New Century Version
Lord , why are you so far away? Why do you hide when there is trouble?

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

New American Standard Bible
Why do You stand far away, LORD? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

World English Bible
Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Geneva Bible (1587)
VVhy standest thou farre off, O Lorde, and hidest thee in due time, euen in afflictio?

Legacy Standard Bible
Why do You stand afar off, O Yahweh?Why do You hide Yourself in times of distress?

Berean Standard Bible
Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

Contemporary English Version
Why are you far away, Lord ? Why do you hide yourself when I am in trouble?

Complete Jewish Bible
Why, Adonai , do you stand at a distance? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Darby Translation
Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?

Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , why do you stay so far away? Why do you hide from people in times of trouble?

George Lamsa Translation
WHY standest thou afar off, O LORD? and witholdest thy care in times of trouble?

Good News Translation
Why are you so far away, O Lord ? Why do you hide yourself when we are in trouble?

Lexham English Bible
Why, O Yahweh, do you stand far off? Why do you hide during times of distress?

Literal Translation
Why do You stand far away, O Jehovah? Will You hide in times of distress?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Why art thou gone so farre of, o LORDE? wilt thou hyde thyselff in tyme of trouble?

American Standard Version
Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

Bible in Basic English
Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?

King James Version (1611)
Why standest thou afarre off, O Lord? why hidest thou thy selfe in times of trouble?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Why standest thou so farre of O God? [why] hidest [thee] in the tyme of trouble?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

English Revised Version
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, whi hast thou go fer awei? thou dispisist `in couenable tymes in tribulacioun.

Update Bible Version
Why do you stand far off, O Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

Webster's Bible Translation
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?

New King James Version
Why do You stand afar off, O LORD? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

New Living Translation
O Lord , why do you stand so far away? Why do you hide when I am in trouble?

New Life Bible
Why do You stand far away, O Lord? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

New Revised Standard
Why, O Lord , do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou stand afar off? Wherefore hide thyself, in times of destitution?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-22) Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?

Revised Standard Version
Why dost thou stand afar off, O LORD? Why dost thou hide thyself in times of trouble?

Young's Literal Translation
Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

THE MESSAGE
God , are you avoiding me? Where are you when I need you? Full of hot air, the wicked are hot on the trail of the poor. Trip them up, tangle them up in their fine-tuned plots.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Why do You stand afar off, O Lord ? Why do You hide Yourself in times of trouble?

Contextual Overview

¹Why do You stand far away, O LORD? Why do You hide [Yourself, veiling Your eyes] in times of trouble?²In pride and arrogance the wicked hotly pursue and persecute the afflicted; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised. ³For the wicked boasts and sings the praises of his heart's desire, And the greedy man curses and spurns [and even despises] the LORD. ⁴The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, will not seek nor inquire for Him; All his thoughts are, "There is no God [so there is no accountability or punishment]." ⁵His ways prosper at all times; Your judgments [LORD] are on high, out of his sight [so he never thinks about them]; As for all his enemies, he sneers at them. ⁶He says to himself, "I will not be moved; For throughout all generations I will not be in adversity [for nothing bad will happen to me]." ⁷His mouth is full of curses and deceit (fraud) and oppression; Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness [injustice and sin]. ⁸He lurks in ambush in the villages; In hiding places he kills the innocent; He lies in wait for the unfortunate [the unhappy, the poor, the helpless]. ⁹He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in his lair; He lies in wait to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net. ¹⁰He crushes [his prey] and crouches; And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3464, bc 541

standest: Psalms 22:1, Psalms 46:1, Jeremiah 14:8

hidest: Psalms 13:1-3, Psalms 27:9, Psalms 30:7, Psalms 44:24, Psalms 88:14, Job 13:24, Job 23:9, Job 34:29

Reciprocal: Exodus 33:7 - afar off Job 23:8 - General Psalms 22:11 - Be not Psalms 22:19 - But Psalms 27:5 - For in Psalms 35:22 - be Psalms 69:18 - Draw Psalms 74:1 - O God Psalms 78:4 - praises Psalms 89:46 - wilt Psalms 119:54 - General Proverbs 15:29 - far Isaiah 64:12 - General Ezekiel 39:23 - hid I Habakkuk 1:13 - wherefore Matthew 8:25 - and awoke Mark 4:38 - carest

Cross-References

Genesis 2:4
This is the history of [the origin of] the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day [that is, days of creation] that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens—

Genesis 5:1
This is the book (the written record, the history) of the generations of [the descendants of] Adam. When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness].

Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations (family history) of Noah. Noah was a righteous man [one who was just and had right standing with God], blameless in his [evil] generation; Noah walked (lived) [in habitual fellowship] with God.

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:7
"As for you, be fruitful and multiply; Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it."

Genesis 9:19
These are the three sons of Noah, and from these [men] the whole earth was populated and scattered with inhabitants.

Matthew 1:1
The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son (descendant) of David, the son (descendant) of Abraham:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?.... This psalm begins with a complaint which proceeds on two general heads; the one is with respect to God, his distance from his people, and desertion of them in times of trouble, in this verse; and the other is with respect to the wicked in some following ones. God by his infinite essence and power is everywhere, and is never far off from any of his creatures; and though his glorious presence is in heaven, which, with respect to us on earth, is a land afar off, yet this hinders not but that there is often great nearness between God and his people; and when he stands afar off from them in their apprehensions, it is when he withdraws his gracious presence from them, and defers help and assistance to them, and does not immediately and directly come and visit them: this they cannot bear, they complain; they wonder that, seeing they are the objects of his love, this should be his manner of conduct towards them; they expostulate with him, and inquire for what end and upon what account he should so use them, and most earnestly desire that he would haste and come unto them and help them; see Psalms 22:1;

[why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble? when God seems to take no notice of his people, does not look upon them, but turns a deaf ear to them, he is said to hide his face, his eyes and ears, from them: and this is sometimes the case of the best of saints, as it has been of Job, David, Heman, and others; and though this is done in a sovereign way by God, who comes and goes when he pleases; for sensible communion with him as much depends upon his sovereign pleasure as the gift of his grace itself does; yet, generally speaking, the denial or withdrawing of his gracious presence is by way of resentment for some disagreeable conduct and behaviour of his people; and is consistent with his everlasting and unchangeable love to them, but is what fills them with grief and sorrow; nor can they: forbear making mournful complaints upon it; and this is aggravated when it is a time of trouble with them, either of soul trouble, by reason of the prevalence of unbelief, and the force of Satan's temptations; or of bodily affliction; though times of trouble here seem to design times of persecution, as may be concluded from the connection of these words with the following; and antichristian times are times of persecution: during the reign of antichrist, in which he is suffered to make war with the saints and overcome them; and during the church's being in the wilderness the space of one thousand two hundred and sixty days or years, God may seem to stand at a distance, and to hide himself from her.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? - That is, What is the reason why thou doest this? The thought upon which this is based is that God might be expected to interpose in a time of trouble, and that His aid might then be looked for. Yet, in this case, He seemed to be an indifferent spectator of the sorrows and afflictions of the wronged and oppressed. This filled the mind of the writer with surprise, and he could not account for it, especially in view of the character of the person or persons who had wronged the author of the psalm. “To stand afar off” in such circumstances, is an attitude of indifference and unconcern - as when others do not come near us if we are sick, or are bereaved, or are in circumstances of poverty and want. That man should do this would have produced no surprise in the mind of the writer; that God should do it was something that filled him with wonder.

Why hidest thou thyself? - As if God concealed himself or kept away. He did not manifest himself, but seemed to let the afflicted man suffer alone.

In times of trouble - Affliction, sorrow, persecution. The particular trouble referred to here was that which was produced by the machinations of the enemy or enemies whose character is described in the following verses. The question, however, is put in a general form, as if it; were strange and unaccountable that God should ever fail to interpose in time of trouble. How often has there been occasion to ask this question in our world!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM X

The psalmist complains to God of the oppressions which the poor

suffer from the wicked man, whom he describes as the hater of

the poor, 1, 2;

proud, 3;

one who will not seek God, 4;

and is regardless of his judgments, 5;

self-confident, 6;

blasphemous and deceitful, 7;

strives by subtlety and treachery to destroy the poor, 8-10;

and supposes that God is regardless of his conduct, 11.

The psalmist calls earnestly on God to preserve the poor and

humble, and cast down the oppressor, 12-15.

He foresees that his prayer is heard; that judgment will be

executed, and the poor delivered, 16-18.

NOTES ON PSALM X

Verse Psalms 10:1. Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? — This Psalm makes a part of the preceding in the Vulgate and Septuagint; and in four of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS. It seems to belong to the time of the captivity, or the return of the captives. It was probably made in reference to Sanballat, and the other enemies or the Jews. There is a great similarity between this and Psalms 13:0, Psalms 14:0, Psalms 35:0, and Psalms 53:0. In these, as Calmet remarks, we find the same complaints, the same sentiments, and almost the same expressions.

God is represented here as standing at some distance, beholding the oppression of his people, and yet apparently disregarding it.