Psalms 38:21
My Lord God, forsake thou not me (or do not thou desert me); go thou not away from me.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 22:1To (the) overcomer, for the morrowtide hind, the psalm of David. God, my God, behold thou on me, why hast thou forsaken me? the words of my trespasses be far from mine health. ( For the choirmaster, to the tune of ‘The deer in the morning’, a song by David. God, my God, look thou upon me, why hast thou abandoned me? why is thy help so far from me, yea, from answering my plea?)
Psalms 22:19But thou, Lord, delay not thine help from me; behold thou to my defence. (But thou, Lord, do not delay thy help for me; hasten thou to my defence.)
Psalms 35:12They yielded to me evils for goods; barrenness to my soul. (They gave me evil for good; making my soul barren.)
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 →