Adam Clarke on Psalms 70

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Psalms70:1

Make haste to help me - I am in extreme distress, and the most imminent danger. Haste to help me, or I am lost.

Adam Clarke, Commentary and Critical Notes, Psalms 70:1. Public domain.

Let them be turned backward - They are coming in a body against me. Lord, stop their progress!

Adam Clarke, Commentary and Critical Notes, Psalms 70:2. Public domain.

That say, Aha, aha - האה האה Heach! heach! a note of supreme contempt. See on Psa 40:15 (note).

Adam Clarke, Commentary and Critical Notes, Psalms 70:3. Public domain.

Let God be magnified - Let his glory, mercy, and kindness, continually appear in the increase of his own work in the souls of his followers!

Adam Clarke, Commentary and Critical Notes, Psalms 70:4. Public domain.

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!

Adam Clarke, Commentary and Critical Notes, Psalms 70:5. Public domain.

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