This short prayer for speedy help and the discomfiture of malicious enemies is a repetition of Psalms 40:13-17 with some slight variations. _Jehovah_has been changed to _God_in Psalms 70:1 _a_, Psalms 70:4 _c_, and _Lord_to _God_in 5 _b_, according to the usual practice of the editor of the Elohisti... [ Continue Reading ]
_Make haste_ The words, as the italics indicate, are not in the Hebrew; and as the text stands, we must either supply _make haste_from the next line, or render according to the Heb. idiom found in Isaiah 38:20, _God is ready to deliver me_. But probably the first word of the verse as it stands in Ps... [ Continue Reading ]
The whole verse is a repetition, with variations, of Psalms 35:4; Psalms 35:26 (cp. Psalms 38:12); and Psalms 35:3 recall Psalms 35:21_; Psalms 35:25; Psalms 35:27; Psalms 35:10_, of the same Psalm. _that seek after my soul_ Or, that seek my life. The text of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Let them be turned back_ Let them turn back, retreating after their ignominious repulse (Psalms 70:2). Cp. Psalms 6:10. The reading of Psalms 40:15 is _let them be desolate_. The difference probably arose out of a confusion between the letters m and b (ישמו ישבו), but may be due to intentional alte... [ Continue Reading ]
Cp. Psalms 35:27. The discomfiture of the wicked gives occasion for the righteous to rejoice in God, not only because they are set free from persecution, but because they see in it the proof of God's righteous sovereignty and the unfolding of His purposes of salvation. _such as love thy salvation_... [ Continue Reading ]
_But I_&c. But as for me, who am afflicted and needy. Cp. Psalms 69:29; Psalms 69:33; Psalms 9:18; Psalms 35:10; Psalms 37:14; Psalms 86:1; Psalms 109:22. _make haste unto me, O God_ So Psalms 141:1. "The text of... [ Continue Reading ]