Psalms 70:1

PSALM LXX

The psalmist prays for speedy deliverance, 1;

prays against those who sought his life, 2, 3;

and for the blessedness of those who sought God, 4;

urges his speedy deliverance, 5.

NOTES ON PSALM LXX

The title in the Hebrew is, To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. There seems little sense in this title. It seems to intimate that the Psalm was written as a memorial that David had been in sore affliction, and that God had delivered him. So the Vulgate, Septuagint, AEthiopic, and Arabic. It is almost word for word the same with the five last verses of Psalms 40:14, to the notes on which the reader is referred.

Verse Psalms 70:1. Make haste to help me] I am in extreme distress, and the most imminent danger. Haste to help me, or I am lost.