Psalms 71:12

THE MESSAGE

God, don't just watch from the sidelines. Come on! Run to my side! My accusers—make them lose face. Those out to get me—make them look Like idiots, while I stretch out, reaching for you, and daily add praise to praise. I'll write the book on your righteousness, talk up your salvation the livelong day, never run out of good things to write or say. I come in the power of the Lord God , I post signs marking his right-of-way.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
God, do not be far from me;my God, hurry to help me.

Hebrew Names Version
God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

King James Version
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

English Standard Version
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

New Century Version
God, don't be far off. My God, hurry to help me.

New English Translation
O God, do not remain far away from me! My God, hurry and help me!

Amplified Bible
O God, do not be far from me; O my God, come quickly to help me!

New American Standard Bible
God, do not be far from me; My God, hurry to my aid!

World English Bible
God, don't be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Goe not farre from me, O God: my God, haste thee to helpe me.

Legacy Standard Bible
O God, do not be far from me;O my God, hasten to my help!

Berean Standard Bible
Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.

Contemporary English Version
Come closer, God! Please hurry and help.

Complete Jewish Bible
God, don't distance yourself from me! My God, hurry to help me!

Darby Translation
O God, be not far from me; my God, hasten to my help.

Easy-to-Read Version
God, don't leave me! My God, hurry and help me!

George Lamsa Translation
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste for my help.

Good News Translation
Don't stay so far away, O God; my God, hurry to my aid!

Lexham English Bible
O God, do not be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.

Literal Translation
O God, do not be far from me; my God come quickly to help me.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for me, I wil pacietly abyde allwaye, & wil euer encrease thy prayse.

American Standard Version
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.

Bible in Basic English
O God, be not far from me; O my God, come quickly to my help.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.

King James Version (1611)
span data-lang="eng" data-trans="kja" data-ref="psa.71.1" class="versetxt"> [To the chiefe musician, a psalme of Dauid, to bring to remembrance.] Make haste, O God, to deliuer mee, make haste to helpe me, O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned backe for a reward of their shame, that say, Aha, aha. Let all those that seeke thee, reioyce, and be glad in thee: and let such as loue thy saluation, say continually, Let God be magnified. But I am poore and needy, make haste vnto me, O God: Thou art my helpe and my deliuerer, O Lord make no tarrying.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Go not farre from me O Lorde: haste thee O my Lorde to helpe me.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
O God, go not far from me, O my God, draw nigh to my help.

English Revised Version
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste to help me.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
God, be thou not maad afer fro me; my God, biholde thou in to myn help.

Update Bible Version
O God, don't be far from me; O my God, hurry to help me.

Webster's Bible Translation
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

New King James Version
O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

New Living Translation
O God, don't stay away. My God, please hurry to help me.

New Life Bible
O God, do not be far from me! O my God, hurry to help me!

New Revised Standard
O God, do not be far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
O God, be not far from me, O my God, to help me, make haste!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(70-12) O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.

Revised Standard Version
O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me!

Young's Literal Translation
O God, be not far from me, O my God, for my help make haste.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
O God, do not be far from me; O my God, hasten to my help!

Contextual Overview

¹I run for dear life to God , I'll never live to regret it. Do what you do so well: get me out of this mess and up on my feet. Put your ear to the ground and listen, give me space for salvation. Be a guest room where I can retreat; you said your door was always open! You're my salvation—my vast, granite fortress. ⁴My God, free me from the grip of Wicked, from the clutch of Bad and Bully. You keep me going when times are tough— my bedrock, God , since my childhood. I've hung on you from the day of my birth, the day you took me from the cradle; I'll never run out of praise. Many gasp in alarm when they see me, but you take me in stride. ⁸Just as each day brims with your beauty, my mouth brims with praise. But don't turn me out to pasture when I'm old or put me on the shelf when I can't pull my weight. My enemies are talking behind my back, watching for their chance to knife me. The gossip is: "God has abandoned him. Pounce on him now; no one will help him." ¹²God, don't just watch from the sidelines. Come on! Run to my side! My accusers—make them lose face. Those out to get me—make them look Like idiots, while I stretch out, reaching for you, and daily add praise to praise. I'll write the book on your righteousness, talk up your salvation the livelong day, never run out of good things to write or say. I come in the power of the Lord God , I post signs marking his right-of-way.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

O God: Psalms 22:11, Psalms 22:19, Psalms 35:22, Psalms 38:21, Psalms 38:22, Psalms 69:18

make: Psalms 70:1, Psalms 70:2, Psalms 143:7

Reciprocal: Psalms 31:14 - Thou Psalms 141:1 - make haste

Gill's Notes on the Bible

O God, be not far from me,.... God is everywhere, at hand and afar off, with regard to his being, power, and providence; his glorious presence is in heaven, his gracious presence is with his people; but, when he hides his face, he seems to be at a distance; and this they cannot bear, and therefore deprecate it; see Psalms 10:1;

O my God, make haste for my help; he knew that his help was in God, and that there was none for him elsewhere; and that he could help him when none else could, and was a present help in time of trouble; and it being such a time with him, and his case desperate, he desires the Lord that he would make haste; and he addresses him as his own God, the consideration of which encouraged his faith and hope in him, and carried in it an argument to help him; see Psalms 119:94.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

O God, be not far from me - See the notes at Psalms 22:11.

O my God, make haste for my help - See the notes at Psalms 40:13.