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Psalm 70
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
1Make haste, O
2Let them be
3Let them be turned
4Let all those that
5But I am
Footnotes
- a 70:1 to help…: Heb. to my help
Hurry, O LORD, to Help Me!
For the choirmaster. Of David. To bring remembrance.
1Make haste, O God, to deliver me!Hurry, O LORD, to help me!
2May those who seek my lifebe ashamed and confounded;may those who wish me harmbe repelled and humiliated. 3May those who say, “Aha, aha!”retreat because of their shame.
4May all who seek Yourejoice and be glad in You;may those who love Your salvation always say,“Let God be magnified!” 5But I am poor and needy;hurry to me, O God.You are my help and my deliverer;O LORD, do not delay.
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