Psalms 37:22
Forsake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Ne derelinquas me, Domine Deus meus ; ne discesseris a me.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- μὴ ἐνκαταλίπῃς με, Κύριε· ὁ θεός μου, μὴ ἀποστῇς ἀπ᾽ ἐμοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 38:22
- אַל תַּֽעַזְבֵ֥נִי יְהוָ֑ה אֱ֝לֹהַ֗י אַל תִּרְחַ֥ק מִמֶּֽנִּי
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XXXVIII
26. “Forsake me not, O Lord; O my God, depart not from me” ( ver. 21 ). Let us speak in Him, let us speak through Him (for He Himself intercedeth for us), and let us say, “Forsake me not, O Lord my God.” And yet He had said, “My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me?” and He now says, “O My God, depart not from Me.” If He does not forsake the body, did He forsake the Head? Whose words then are these but the First Man’s? To show then that He carried about Him a true body of flesh derived from him, He says, “My God, My God why hast Thou forsaken Me?” God had not forsaken Him. If He does not forsake Thee, who believest in Him, could the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, One God, forsake Christ? But He had transferred to Himself the person of the First Man. …