Psalms 38:21

Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.

In Context

20They also that render evil for good Are adversaries unto me, because I follow the thing that is good.

22Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. Psalm 39 For the Chief Musician, Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning?

Psalms 22:19But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

Psalms 35:12They reward me evil for good, [To] the bereaving of my soul.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:13-22

Sorrowful Complaints. 12 They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long. 13 But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. 14 Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. 15 For in thee, O Lord , do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. 16 For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves… Read the whole commentary →

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