Psaume 38:21

21 Et, me rendant le mal pour le bien, ils se font mes adversaires parce que je m'attache au bien.

Psaume 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.

Psaume 38:21 In-Context

19 Car je déclare mon iniquité; je suis dans la crainte à cause de mon péché.
20 Cependant mes ennemis sont vivants et forts, et ceux qui me haïssent sans cause sont nombreux.
21 Et, me rendant le mal pour le bien, ils se font mes adversaires parce que je m'attache au bien.
22 Ne m'abandonne point, ô Éternel! Mon Dieu, ne t'éloigne point de moi!
23 Hâte-toi, viens à mon aide, Seigneur, qui es ma délivrance!
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.