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Psalms 70:1

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”

— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.

Psalms 70:1 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 70:1

Theological / Devotional

Make haste. The phrase is supplied. In the Hebrew the psalm begins abruptly, “O God, to deliver me,” suggesting the intensity of the psalmist’s distress—as if there is not even sufficient control of emotion over intellect to make the grammatical construction complete.

O God. Heb. ’Elohim. Ps. 40:13 has Yahweh (Vol. I, pp. 170–173).

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