Psalms

Chapter 70

Urgent Prayer for Help and Deliverance

The psalmist urgently calls on God to make haste to deliver and help him. He prays that those who seek his soul be ashamed and confounded, turned backward and put to confusion. All who seek God should rejoice and be glad in Him, and those who love His salvation should continually say, 'Let God be magnified.' Though the psalmist is poor and needy, he trusts that God is his help and deliverer and asks that the Lord make no tarrying.

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¹Make 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.

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