Psalms 38:21

21 Don't dump me, God; my God, don't stand me up.

Psalms 38:21 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 38:21

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 Psalms 38:11 ) ;

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.

Psalms 38:21 In-Context

19 My enemies are alive and in action, a lynch mob after my neck.
20 I give out good and get back evil from God-haters who can't stand a God-lover.
21 Don't dump me, God; my God, don't stand me up.
22 Hurry and help me; I want some wide-open space in my life!
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