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Psalms 70

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A brief psalm of David — nearly identical to Psalm 40:13-17 — pleading urgently for God to make haste to deliver and confound those who seek his life. It concludes with a cry for joy among those who seek God and acknowledgment of the psalmist's poverty and need.

1Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.

2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

3Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.

5But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.