Old Testament
Psalms 70
Overview
Psalm 70 is a brief, urgent prayer for deliverance, marked from start to finish by the cry to hurry: "Make haste, O God, to deliver me!" The psalmist asks that those who seek his life be shamed and turned back, while all who seek God rejoice and say "God is great!" He closes by confessing his own poverty and need, pleading once more, "O LORD, do not delay." It is a compact, intense plea distilled to its essentials.
1To 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.
2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
3Let them be turned back for a reward 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 LORD, make no tarrying.