Verse 1

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

Referenced Verses

• Ps 22:1 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.
• Ps 27:9 : 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!
• Ps 30:7 : 7 O LORD, in your good favor you made me secure. Then you rejected me and I was terrified.
• Ps 44:24 : 24 Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?
• Job 13:24 : 24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
• Job 23:9 : 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 : 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,
• Ps 88:14 : 14 O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?
• Jer 14:8 : 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?
• Ps 13:1-3 : 1 For the music director; a psalm of David. How long, LORD, will you continue to ignore me? How long will you pay no attention to me? 2 How long must I worry, and suffer in broad daylight? How long will my enemy gloat over me? 3 Look at me! Answer me, O LORD my God! Revive me, or else I will die!
• Ps 46:1 : 1 For the music director; by the Korahites; according to the alamoth style; a song. God is our strong refuge; he is truly our helper in times of trouble.