King James Version
Psalms 71:12 in the King James Version says “O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 71 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.”
Psalms 71:12 · KJV
For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, lay: Heb. watch, or, observe
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.
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“O God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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)
“O God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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