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Psalm 38:20-22
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 38:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 [a]Numerous and strong are my enemies without cause;
many are those who hate me without good reason.[b]
21 Those who repay my good deeds with evil
oppose me because I follow a path of righteousness.
22 Do not abandon me, O Lord;
my God, do not remain far from me.
Footnotes
- Psalm 38:20 Passage close to Pss 35:11; 109:3-5. Some Greek manuscripts and many versions add: “They have rejected me, the loved one, like some hideous corpse” (see Isa 14:19 Greek). This allusion to the crucified Christ is made even more explicit in the Coptic version by the words: “They have nailed my flesh.”
- Psalm 38:20 Hate me without good reason: although the psalmist acknowledges that he sinned against the Lord, he protests his innocence of wrongdoing against his enemies (see note on Ps 35:19).
