{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/kad/psa070.htm","path":"bib/cmt/kad/psa070.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/kad/psa070.htm","text":"Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsh, [1857-78]\nCry of a Persecuted One for Help\nThis short Psalm, placed after Ps 69 on account of the kindred nature of its contents (cf. more especially v. 6 with Psa 69:30), is, with but few deviations, a repetition of Psa 40:14. This portion of the second half of Ps 40 is detached from it and converted into the Elohimic style. Concerning \u05dc\u05d4\u05d6\u05db\u05bc\u05d9\u05e8, at the presentation of the memorial portion of the mincha, vid., Psa 38:1. It is obvious that David himself is not the author of the Psalm in this stunted form. The \u05dc\u05d3\u05d5\u05d3 is moreover justified, if he composed the original Psalm which is here modified and appropriated to a special liturgical use.\nWe see at once at the very beginning, in the omission of the \u05e8\u05e6\u05d4 (Psa 40:14), that what we have here before us is a fragment of Ps 40, and perhaps a fragment that only accidentally came to have an independent existence. The \u05dc\u05d4\u05e6\u05bc\u05d9\u05dc\u05e0\u05d9, which was under the government of \u05e8\u05e6\u05d4, now belongs to \u05d4\u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05d4, and the construction is without example elsewhere. In Psa 70:3 (= Psa 40:15) \u05d9\u05d7\u05d3 and \u05dc\u05e1\u05e4\u05bc\u05d5\u05ea\u05d4\u05bc are given up entirely; the original is more full-toned and soaring. Instead of \u05d9\u05e9\u05c1\u05de\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc, torpescant, Psa 70:4 has \u05d9\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05bc\u05d1\u05d5\u05bc, recedant (as in Ps 6:11, cf. Psa 9:18), which is all the more flat for coming after \u05d9\u05e1\u05d2\u05d5 \u05d0\u05d7\u05d5\u05e8. In Psa 70:4, after \u05d5\u05d9\u05d0\u05de\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd the \u05dc\u05d9, which cannot here (cf. on the contrary, Psa 35:21) be dispensed with, is wanting.\n\u05d5\u05d9\u05d0\u05de\u05e8\u05d5 instead of \u05d9\u05d0\u05de\u05e8\u05d5 is unimportant. But since the divine name Jahve is now for once chosen side by side with Elohim, it certainly had a strong claim to be retained in Psa 70:5. Instead of \u05ea\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05da we have \u05d9\u05e9\u05c1\u05d5\u05e2\u05ea\u05da here; instead of \u05e2\u05d6\u05e8\u05ea\u05d9, here \u05e2\u05d6\u05e8\u05d9. And instead of \u05d0\u05d3\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d9\u05d7\u05e9\u05c1\u05d1 \u05dc\u05d9 we have here \u05d0\u05dc\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d7\u05d5\u05bc\u05e9\u05c1\u05d4\u05be\u05dc\u05bc\u05d9 - the hope is turned into petition: make haste unto me, is an innovation in expression that is caused by the taking over of the \u05dc\u05d9.","title":"Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 70","type":"page"}