Psalms 70:1
Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!
BSB
ASV
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
KJV
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.
CONFERENCE 10:10 (435)
And so for keeping up continual recollection of God this devotional formula is to be ever set before you. "O God, make speed to save me. O Lord, make haste to help me."This verse has not unreasonably been picked out from the whole of Scripture for this purpose. It embraces all the feelings which can be implanted in human nature, and it can be fitly and satisfactorily adapted to every condition and all assaults.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me,.... The phrase, "make haste", is supplied from the following clause in Psa 40:13; it is, "be pleased, O Lord", or "Jehovah". The Targum renders it, "to deliver us"; very wrongly; make haste to help me, O Lord; See Gill on Psa 22:19.
This is the second Psalm which is a repetition of another, the former being Psalm 53, which was a rehearsal of Psalm 14. The present differs from the Fortieth Psalm at the outset, for that begins with, "Be pleased, "and this, in our version, more urgently with, Make haste; or, as in the Hebrew, with an abrupt and broken cry, O God, to deliver me; O Lord, to help me hasten. It is not forbidden us, in hours of dire distress, to ask for speed on God's part in his coming to rescue us.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
leads to
Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
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Psalms 38:1O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
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In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger or discipline me in Your wrath.
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Psalms 71:12Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
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Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.