Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word
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Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) 1× 1 Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians 1× 7 Summa Theologica 1× 9 John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible 1× 1-5 Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament 1× 1, 4 Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary 1× 1
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Codex Sinaiticus Aleph c. AD 330-360 Codex Vaticanus B c. AD 300-325 Codex Alexandrinus A c. AD 400-440 Aleppo Codex (Crown of Aleppo) c. AD 930 Leningrad Codex (Codex Leningradensis) AD 1008
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What is Psalms 70 about?

Continuing the note of distress, this brief and urgent prayer repeats the closing verses of an earlier psalm as a cry that stands on its own: 'Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.' David asks that those who seek his life be turned back ashamed and that all who seek God rejoice and say continually, 'Let God be magnified.' Confessing himself poor and needy, he pleads that God would not tarry. Set 'to bring to remembrance,' it teaches the worshiping people to press their need upon God with holy urgency, casting themselves wholly on His timely help.

Historical backdrop

These are the songbook of a nation, sung across a thousand years of Israel's worship, from Moses in the wilderness to the exiles returned from Babylon. They were carried from the tabernacle to Solomon's temple to the second temple rebuilt under Persia, set to the lyre and the harp and the clash of cymbals in the courts of the LORD.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 70
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Psalms 70
The Church Fathers on Psalms 70

Psalms 70

Psalms Chapter 70
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1Make haste, O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
2Let them be put to shame and confounded That seek after my soul: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.
3Let them be turned back by reason of their shame That say, Aha, aha.
4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; And let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
5But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.
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What is Psalms 70 about?

Continuing the note of distress, this brief and urgent prayer repeats the closing verses of an earlier psalm as a cry that stands on its own: 'Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.' David asks that those who seek his life be turned back ashamed and that all who seek God rejoice and say continually, 'Let God be magnified.' Confessing himself poor and needy, he pleads that God would not tarry. Set 'to bring to remembrance,' it teaches the worshiping people to press their need upon God with holy urgency, casting themselves wholly on His timely help.