Psalms 38:21
Don’t forsake me, LORD. My God, don’t be far from me.
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
In Context
20They who give evil for good are also adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
22Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
Cross References
Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 22:19But don’t be far off, LORD. You are my help. Hurry 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 →