Sálmarnir 70:5

Heilögum Biblíunni

5 (70:6) Ég er þjáður og snauður, hraða þér til mín, ó Guð. Þú ert fulltingi mitt og frelsari, dvel eigi, Drottinn!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I am: Psalms 40:17, Psalms 69:29, Psalms 109:22

make: Psalms 141:1

O Lord: Psalms 13:1, Psalms 13:2, Hebrews 10:37, Revelation 22:20

Reciprocal: Psalms 38:22 - Make Psalms 119:86 - help Psalms 143:7 - Hear me

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I [am] poor and needy,.... In Psalms 40:17 it follows, yet "the Lord thinketh on me"; instead of which it is here,

Psalms 40:17- :;

make haste unto me, O God; which repeats for sense the same petition as in Psalms 71:1;

thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying; in

Psalms 40:17 it is, "O my God".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But I am poor and needy - This is the same as in Psalms 40:17.

Make haste unto me, O God - Hebrew, אלהים 'Elohiym. In the parallel place in Psalms 40:17, this is, “The Lord thinketh upon me,” - where the Hebrew word is not אלהים 'Elohiym, but אדני tub ,my 'Adonāy (Lord). The word “make haste” seems to have been introduced here by design - thus carrying out the main idea in Psalms 40:0, but turning here to “petition” what is there stated as a “fact.”

Thou art my help and my deliverer ... - The close of the psalm is the same as the close of Psalms 40:0, except that the word Lord (Yahweh) is used here instead of “God” (אלהים 'Elohiym). It is not possible to ascertain whether these changes were mere matters of taste, or whether they were designed to adapt the psalm to some new circumstance, or to the special feelings of the psalmist at the time. There is no evidence that they are mere errors of transcribers, and indeed the changes are so made that this cannot be supposed. The change of the names אלהים 'Elohiym, יהוה Yahweh, and אדני 'Adonāy, for example, is such as must have been by design, and could not have been made by copyists. But what that design was must remain unknown. The alterations do not in any way, as far as we can understand, affect the sense.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 70:5. But I am poor and needy — עני ואביון ani veebyon, I am a poor man, and a beggar - an afflicted beggar; a sense of my poverty causes me to beg.

Thou art my help — I know thou hast enough, and to spare; and therefore I come to thee.

Make no tarrying. — My wants are many, my danger great, my time short. O God, delay not!

ANALYSIS OF THE SEVENTIETH PSALM

The contents of this Psalm are the following: -

I. The prayer of David for himself, that he may be freed from his enemies, Psalms 70:1, repeated Psalms 70:5.

II. For the speedy overthrow of the wicked Psalms 70:2-3.

III. For the prosperity of the godly, Psalms 70:4.

IV. The arguments he uses to induce God to answer his prayer.

1. His miserable condition: "I am poor and needy."

2. God's office: "Thou art my Helper and Redeemer."

For a farther analysis, see at the end of the fortieth Psalm. Psalms 40:17.