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Open section Hurry, O LORD, to Help Me!
F1or the choirmaster. Of David. To bring remembrance. 2May those who seek my life 3May those who say, “Aha, aha!”
4May all who seek You 5But I am poor and needy;
Psalms
Chapter 70
Hurry, O LORD, to Help Me!
This short psalm is an urgent cry for God to act quickly, asking that those who seek the psalmist's ruin be shamed and driven back while those who seek God rejoice and magnify him. The prayer is compact and intense, repeating the need for haste and ending with the speaker's plain confession that he is poor and needy. Its brevity sharpens its force: the psalm offers a concentrated pattern of appeal when danger is immediate and delay feels unbearable.
Psalm 70 serves as a distilled prayer of urgent dependence, closely related to the final portion of Psalm 40 but standing here as its own liturgical plea. It shows how the faithful can ask simultaneously for swift deliverance, the reversal of enemies, and the joy of the God-seeking community while honestly acknowledging their weakness before the Lord.
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Psalms 70
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