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Sálmarnir 70:1
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to bring: Psalms 38:1, *title
O God: Psalms 40:13-17, Psalms 69:18, Psalms 71:12, Psalms 143:7
to help me: Heb. to my help
Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 16:4 - to record Psalms 5:11 - But Psalms 38:22 - Make Psalms 69:17 - hear me speedily Psalms 102:2 - in the day
Gill's Notes on the Bible
[Make haste], O God, to deliver me,.... The phrase, "make haste", is supplied from the following clause in Psalms 40:13; it is, "be pleased, O Lord", or "Jehovah". The Targum renders it, "to deliver us"; very wrongly;
make haste to help me, O Lord; Psalms 40:13- :.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Make haste - These words are supplied by our translators. The first word in Psalms 40:13, rendered “be pleased,” is here omitted in the original. The psalm in the Hebrew begins abruptly - “O God, to deliver me,” - leaving the impression that this is a fragment - a fragment commencing without even the care necessary to make the grammatical construction complete.
O God - Hebrew, אלהים 'Elohiym. In the corresponding place in Psalms 40:13 the word is “Yahweh.” Why the change was made is unknown. The remainder of the verse is the same as in Psalms 40:0.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 40:14-17, 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.
