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Psalms 70:1-4

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

1. 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. 2. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. 3. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. 4. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

Psalms 70:1-4 — 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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