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Selected Verse: Psalms 35:22 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 35:22 |
King James |
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
This thou hast seen, O Lord - Thou hast seen what they have done, as they profess to have seen what I have done Psa 35:21. Thine eye has been upon all their movements, as they say that theirs has been upon mine. Compare the notes at Psa 35:17.
Keep not silence - That is, Speak; rebuke them; punish them. God seemed to look on with unconcern. As we express it, he "said nothing." He appeared to pay no attention to what was done, but suffered them to do as they pleased without interposing to rebuke or check them. Compare the notes at Psa 28:1.
O Lord, be not far from me - Compare the notes at Psa 10:1. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| The poet takes up this malignant "now our eye sees it" and gives another turn to it. With יהוה, alternates in Psa 35:22, Psa 35:23, cf. Psa 35:17, אדני, the pronominal force of which is revived in the combination אלחי ואדני (vid., Psa 16:2). חעיר, carrying its object within itself, signifies to stir, rouse up, and הקיץ, to break off, tear one's self away, gather one's self up from, sleep. "To my right," viz., to prove it by facts; "to my cause," to carry it on in my defence. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| This - Thou also hast seen, all their plots and threats, and all my distresses and calamities. Keep not - Be not deaf, to my prayers. The same word signifies, both to be silent, and to be deaf. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| This thou hast seen - I have no need to adduce evidences of these wrongs; thou, to whom I appeal, hast seen them. Therefore, |
1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
1 A Psalm of David. Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
17 Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.