{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/clarke/psa070.htm","path":"bib/cmt/clarke/psa070.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/clarke/psa070.htm","text":"Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke, [1831]\nThe psalmist prays for speedy deliverance, Psa 70:1; prays against those who sought his life, Psa 70:2, Psa 70:3; and for the blessedness of those who sought God, Psa 70:4; urges his speedy deliverance, Psa 70:5.\nThe title in the Hebrew is, To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembranee. 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, Ethiopic, and Arabic. It is almost word for word the same with the five last verses of Psalm 40, to the notes on which the reader is referred.\nMake haste to help me - I am in extreme distress, and the most imminent danger. Haste to help me, or I am lost.\nLet them be turned backward - They are coming in a body against me. Lord, stop their progress!\nThat say, Aha, aha - \u05d4\u05d0\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d0\u05d4 Heach! heach! a note of supreme contempt. See on Psa 40:15 (note).\nLet God be magnified - Let his glory, mercy, and kindness, continually appear in the increase of his own work in the souls of his followers!\nBut I am poor and needy - \u05e2\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d5\u05d0\u05d1\u05d9\u05d5\u05df ani veebyon, I am a poor man, and a beggar - an afflicted beggar; a sense of my poverty causes me to beg.\nThou art my help - I know thou hast enough, and to spare; and therefore I come to thee.\nMake no tarrying - My wants are many, my danger great, my time short. O God, delay not!","title":"Commentary on the Bible by Adam Clarke: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 70","type":"page"}