Psalms 9:21

Why stand you afar off, O Lord? why do you overlook us in times of need, in affliction? 1

LXX2012 (US English)

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20Appoint, O Lord, a lawgiver over them: let the heathen know that they are men. Pause. 1 (Psalm 9a + 9:20 Note. - Here begins a change of numbers as compared with the Heb. which continues to Ps. 146, this psalm having no number, and the eleventh being called the tenth. The following verses 21-37 are numbered 1-18 in the original text. )

22While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is + 9:22 Gr. inflamed, as in a fever. hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine. 1

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