King James Version
Psalms 35:22 in the King James Version says “This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.”
Psalms 35:22 · KJV
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“This thou hast seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“keep not silence”
H2790to scratch, i.e., (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“be not far”
H7368to widen (in any direction), i.e., (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
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