PSALM 35:22

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.”

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Psalm 35:22 Translation & Meaning

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This (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
thou hast seen, רָאִ֣יתָה To see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative) seen
O Lord: יְ֭הוָה (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God O Lord
keep not אַֽל Not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing keep not
silence: תֶּחֱרַ֑שׁ To 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 sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness) silence
O Lord, אֲ֝דֹנָ֗י The Lord (used as a proper name of God only) O Lord
be not אֲל Not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing not
far תִּרְחַ֥ק To widen (in any direction), i.e., (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) far
from מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ Properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses from
me. מִמֶּֽנִּי׃ Properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses me

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  • 20  For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

  • 21  Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.

  • 22  This thou hast seen, O Lord: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

  • 23  Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.

  • 24  Judge me, O Lord my God, according to thy righteousness; and let them not rejoice over me.



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