786. Why Stand So Far Away, My God? (Psalm 10)

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Text Information
First Line: Why stand so far away, my God?
Title: Why Stand So Far Away, My God? (Psalm 10)
Author: Ruth Duck (1985)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture:
Topic: Healing; Justice; Lament
Copyright: © 1992 GIA Publications, Inc.
ONE LICENSE: 31173
Tune Information
Name: MORNING SONG
Harmonizer: C. Winfred Douglas (1940)
Meter: CM
Key: A♭ Major
Source: Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813
Copyright: Harm. © 1940 C. Winfred Douglas (admin. Church Pension Fund)


Text Information:

This paraphrase of Psalm 10 is striking in its timeless questions and its keen sense of being abandoned by God. The injustice, oppression, and fear it describes resonate with the state of the world in our own day. Like the ancient psalmist, we pray for God to end the reign of terror.


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