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Psalms 70:1 To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
A Psalm of David. Made, likely, or rather made use of from Psa. 40:14-15, &c., when Sheba, the son of Bichri, was up in rebellion after Absalom's death (2 Sam. 20:1), &c. See Psa. 69:1, title.
To briny to remembrance. Worthy to be remembered, and followed as a pattern of prayer. Some make this psalm an appendix to the former, as Psa. 43:1-5., is to Psa. 42:1-11. Others make it a part of the next psalm; which is, therefore, say they, without a title.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me. As a father runs without legs when his child is hazarded.
Psalm 70:2 Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
Let them be ashamed. See Psa. 40:14; 35:26-27.
Psalm 70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
Let them be turned back for a reward. Vel sicut per insidias vel supplantationem, more athletarum, a עקב, Let them be supplanted, defeated.
That say, Aha, aha. Augustine rendereth it, Euge, Euge, that is, Well done; and giveth this note upon it, Plus persequitur lingua adulatoris quam manus interfectoris, The tongue of a flatterer may mischief a man more than the hand of a murderer. The apostle (Heb. 11:37), ranketh their tempting and flattering promises among their bloody deeds, their rising tongues with their terrifying jaws.
Psalm 70:4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Let all those that seek thee, &c. Piorum characteres, saith one, a godly man characterized, by his search after God, his joy in him, his love to him, his praises of him.
Let God be magnified. In illo quicquid ego; ille, non ego, saith Augustine.
Psalm 70:5 But I [am] poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
But I am poor and needy. See Psa. 69:29, and the note there.
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