Psalm 10

This article is about Psalm 10 in Hebrew (Masoretic) numbering. For Psalm 10 in Greek Septuagint or Latin Vulgate numbering, see Psalm 11.
For the Trouble album, see Psalm 9 (album).
Psalm 10
"Why standest thou afar off, O LORD?"
End of Psalm 10 in the 9th-century Elzevir Bible
Other name
  • Psalm 9b
  • "Ut quid Domine recessisti"
Textby David
LanguageHebrew (original)

Psalm 10 is the tenth psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?" In the Greek Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, it is not an individual psalm but the second part of psalm 9, "Ut quid Domine recessisti".[1] These two consecutive psalms have the form of a single acrostic Hebrew poem. Compared to Psalm 9, Psalm 10 is focused more on the individual than the collective human condition.[2]

The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

  1. ^ "Parallel Latin/English Psalter / Psalmus 9". Archived from the original on 2017-09-30. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  2. ^ The Artscroll Tehillim page 16