Psalms 10:1

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

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 10

9 songs meet this passage

  • Another Day in Paradise (2016 Remastered) · Phil Collins

    resonates with Psalms 10:1

    The cry to God amid apparent divine silence in the face of the poor's suffering mirrors this psalm's raw question.

  • All This Time · Sting

    resonates with Psalms 10:1

    This raw question of divine absence mirrors the psalmist's own cry asking why God seems far off in times of trouble.

  • “Swastikas and the police, hang a nigga, swanging rope”

    Kody Blu 31 · JID

    resonates with Psalms 10:1-2

    The lament over racial violence and feeling hunted echoes the psalmist's cry against oppression and the sense of God's seeming distance.

  • “I watch folks get popped cause they ain't from around here”

    My Hood (Full Mix) · Suni Clay

    resonates with Psalms 10:1-2

    The psalmist's cry over violence against the vulnerable mirrors this song's unflinching account of life under threat.

  • “somebody keep telling me, Don't hang around”

    A Change Is Gonna Come · Sam Cooke

    resonates with Psalms 10:1-2

    The cry against being pushed aside and unseen reflects the psalmist's complaint against the proud who afflict the vulnerable.

  • Informer · Snow

    resonates with Psalms 10:1-2

    The speaker's cry against being hunted and roughed up by authority echoes the psalmist's complaint about the wicked pursuing the afflicted.

  • “Staying alive was no jive”

    C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) [Radio Edit] · Wu-Tang Clan

    resonates with Psalms 10:1-4

    The psalmist's cry about the wicked prospering while the poor are hunted mirrors this portrait of survival under pressure.

  • “We are the angry and the desperate”

    Prayer of the Refugee · Rise Against

    resonates with Psalms 10:1-4

    The cry of the oppressed and overlooked, wondering why the powerful seem untouched, resonates with this verse of lament against injustice.

  • White Man'z World · Makaveli

    resonates with Psalms 10:1-4

    The song's cry against injustice and the feeling of being forgotten by a distant world mirrors the psalmist's lament over the proud and the oppressed.

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