Psalms 38:21

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹²Those who seek my life lay snares; those who wish me harm speak destruction, plotting deceit all day long. ¹³But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth. ¹⁴I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply. ¹⁵I wait for You, O LORD; You will answer, O Lord my God. ¹⁶For I said, "Let them not gloat over me-those who taunt me when my foot slips." ¹⁷For I am ready to fall, and my pain is ever with me. ¹⁸Yes, I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin. ¹⁹Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason. ²⁰Those who repay my good with evil attack me for pursuing the good. ²¹Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.

Bible Verse Review
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O my God: Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:11, Psalms 22:19, Psalms 22:24, Psalms 35:21, Psalms 35:22

Reciprocal: Psalms 27:9 - leave Psalms 71:12 - O God Psalms 119:8 - O forsake Daniel 6:22 - My God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Forsake me not, O Lord,.... Or continue not to forsake; for he seems to have been under divine desertion, and might be under apprehensions that God had utterly forsaken him; which he entreats he would not, though his friends had forsook him, and his own strength had failed and left him, Psalms 38:10;

O my God, be not far from me; as to his gracious presence, and with respect to help and deliverance, otherwise God is not far from any of his creatures, being omnipresent.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Forsake me not, O Lord - That is, Do not leave me in my troubles, my sickness, my sorrow. Leave me not to die; leave me not to complain and dishonor thee; leave me not to the reproaches of my enemies.

O my God, be not far from me - See Psalms 35:22. Compare Psalms 10:1; Psalms 13:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 38:21. Forsake me not, O Lord — Though all have forsaken me, do not thou.

Be not far from me — Though my friends keep aloof, be thou near to help me.