Turn not away thy face from me; decline not in thy wrath from thy servant. Be thou my helper, forsake me not; do not thou despise me, O God my Saviour.
George Leo Haydock
Decline not. Hebrew, “put not away.” (Protestants) But the Vulgate seems preferable. — Forsake. Septuagint (Complutensian and Aldine) me aposkorakises , “send me not to the crows,” an expression borrowed from profane authors, who said, “to the crows,” when they held a person in sovereign contempt. (Theodoret; Berthier) — Grabe substitutes this word, though the Alexandrian and Vatican manuscripts agree with us. (Haydock) — There seems to be a gradation in the condition of the reprobate here observed. God hides his countenance, withdraws, abandons, and despises them; and they only perceive their misery, when it is too late. (Berthier) — David implores aid in this life, and deprecates the divine anger, looking upon himself as an orphan, whom God takes under his special protection. (Worthingtonn)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.