Psalms 35:22
You have seen it, LORD. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
In Context
21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
23Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!
Cross References
Exodus 3:7The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
Psalms 10:14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
Psalms 22:12Many bulls have surrounded me. Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.
Psalms 28:1To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 39:12“Hear my prayer, LORD, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 71:12God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 35:18-28
Sorrowful Complaints; David's Appeal and Prayer to God. 17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth… Read the whole commentary →