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<h2>O WHY SO FAR REMOVED</h2>
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<p align="center"><h3>“Why standest Thou afar off, O Lord?” Psalm 10:1</h3></p>
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<p><em>Words:</em> Author unknown.</p>
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<p><em>Music:</em> “Sawley,” <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_w_a_walch_j.html" target="_blank">James Walch</a>, 1860 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_s_a_sawley.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td> </td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>O why so far removed, O Lord,<br>
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And why so distant be;<br>
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Why hidest Thou Thy face from us<br>
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In our anxiety?</p>
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<p>The wicked in unholy pride<br>
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The lowly poor oppress;<br>
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Let them be taken in the snare<br>
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Of their own craftiness.</p>
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<p>The wicked in his arrogance<br>
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Refuses God to fear,<br>
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Nor is it in his thoughts at all<br>
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The sovereign God to hear.</p>
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<p>His ways are grievous and Thy laws<br>
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Too high for him to see;<br>
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He therefore his defiance bids,<br>
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And taunts his enemy.</p>
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<p>For he within his heart has said,<br>
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I suffer no distress,<br>
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Adversity comes not to me,<br>
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I still have had success.</p>
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<p>In cursing and deceit and fraud<br>
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His tongue is ever skilled;<br>
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With festering iniquity<br>
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His mouth is ever filled.</p>
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<p>He lurks in village hiding place,<br>
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And in dark corners bent,<br>
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He watches for the humble poor,<br>
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To seize the innocent.</p>
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<p>In stealth he cowers covertly<br>
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As lion in his lair,<br>
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That he may pounce upon the poor,<br>
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And catch him in his snare.</p>
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<p>He crouches low so that the poor<br>
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To his strong friends may fall,<br>
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And tells himself that God forgets<br>
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Or sees it not at all.</p>
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<p>Arise, O Lord, and lift Thy hand,<br>
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The poor in memory keep.<br>
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How can the wicked blaspheme God<br>
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And say He is asleep?</p>
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<p>For surely Thou dost see, O Lord,<br>
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Dost see the sin and spite;<br>
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And when the helpless look to Thee<br>
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Thou dost their wrong requite.</p>
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<p>Break Thou the force of evil men,<br>
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Befriend the fatherless,<br>
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Trace out the wicked everywhere,<br>
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Uproot their wickedness.</p>
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<p>The Lord our God is sovereign still,<br>
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The heathen all are slain.<br>
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Thou, Lord, hast heard the suppliant’s prayer<br>
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And dost his heart sustain.</p>
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<p>No more shall boasting arrogance<br>
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Or taunting pride oppress;<br>
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The poor and orphaned Thou wilt hear<br>
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And judge with righteousness.</p>
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