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Do Not Rebuke Me in Your Anger

Psalms 38:21

In 11 translations

BSB
Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
KJV
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
WEB
Don’t forsake me, Yahweh. My God, don’t be far from me.
ASV
Forsake me not, O Jehovah: O my God, be not far from me.
LSV
Do not forsake me, O YHWH, || My God, do not be far from me,
YLT
Do not forsake me, O Jehovah, My God, be not far from me,
DBY
Forsake me not, Jehovah; O my God, be not far from me.Elohim
DRC37:22
Forsake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me.
GNV
Forsake me not, O Lord: be not thou farre from me, my God.
JPS38:22
Forsake me not, O LORD; O my God, be not far from me.
LXXE37:22
Forsake me not, O Lord my God: depart not from me.

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Original-language editions

WLC38:22
אַל־תַּֽעַזְבֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֑ה אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י אַל־תִּרְחַ֥ק מִמֶּֽנִּי׃KJV:Ps.38.21
LXX-Br37:22
Μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃς με Κύριε ὁ Θεός μου, μὴ ἀποστῇς ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 22:19But You, O LORD, be not far off; O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
  • Psalms 22:24For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
  • Psalms 22:11Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
  • Psalms 35:21–22They gape at me and say, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen!” O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
  • Psalms 22:1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

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  • 38:22 in some Bibles
  • 38:21 in most Bibles

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