Psalms 70:1

CONTENTS

The Psalmist is here at his devotions, in the exercise of faith. He speaks of his situation as trying, and of the insults of his foes; but casts himself upon the faithfulness of his God.

To the chief musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.

Psalms 70:1

I include the whole under one view, both on account of its shortness, and also because we have already gone over it in the five last verses of Psalms 40:1, to which therefore I refer. Perhaps the title of this Psalm is on this account called to bring to remembrance. The same mercies were prayed for then, and the remembrance is made of them now. It is one of the sweetest offices of the Holy Ghost to act as the remembrancer of the Lord Jesus. And when he graciously doth this, in bringing to our forgetful minds the past tokens of his favour, what a blessedness is wrought in the heart! John 14:26. The several parts of this short Psalm are all interesting. Here is the cry of the soul to God; the earnestness of that cry, in the haste the soul wishes the Lord to manifest in deliverance. Here is the cause of the vehemency of supplication, in the malice of the enemies. Here is the assurance of deliverance, in the exercise of faith: while a soul can call God his help, he may be assured of a speedy rescue. And here is the consolation in which the faithful soul reposeth, that all true seekers of the Lord will be found triumphing in the Lord, and continually rejoicing in hope. If we read the whole of this short Psalm with reference to Christ in the days of his flesh, it will be very sweet in the believer's enjoyments. The sure triumphs of Jesus, and all his church in him, will put the same hymn in every heart: Let God be magnified.