Psalms 70:5

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 Psalms 40:17, "The Lord will take thought for me," glancing back at "thy thoughts to us-ward" in Psalms 70:5, is probably the original reading. The variation here may have been introduced for the sake of closer parallelism to make no tarrying. my help, as Psalms 33:20: my deliverer, as Psalms 18:2; Psalms 18:48, a different word from that used in Psalms 70:1.

O Lord In Psalms 40:17, O my God. make no tarrying Cp. Daniel's prayer (Daniel 9:19, A.V. defer not), and the promise in Isaiah 46:13.