Psalms 71:12
10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
11 Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
- KJV
- O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
- WEB
- God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
- ASV
- O God, be not far from me; O my God, make haste to help me.
- DARBY
- O God, be not far from me; my God, hasten to my help.
- BLB
- O God, do not be far from me; O my God, hurry to [be] my help!
- ÅB
- Gud, vær ikke langt borte fra meg! Min Gud, skynd deg å hjelpe meg!
- OTB
- Gud, vær ikke langt borte fra meg;
Min Gud, skynd deg å hjelpe meg! - B1930
- Gud, vær ikke langt borte fra mig! Min Gud, skynd dig å hjelpe mig!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 38:21–22
Forsake me not, O LORD: O my God, be not far from me.
Read in contextPsalms 35:22
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Read in contextPsalms 22:11
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Read in contextPsalms 70:5
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Read in contextPsalms 69:18
Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.
Read in contextPsalms 10:1
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Read in contextPsalms 22:19
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Read in contextPsalms 70:1–2
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
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