Psalms 70 · Verse 1

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.
Psalms 70:1, King James Version

Psalms 70:1 in other translations

BSBFor the choirmaster. Of David. To bring remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!
WEBFor the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder. Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, LORD.
ASVFor the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
YLTTo the Overseer, by David. --‘To cause to remember.' O God, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help, haste.
DARBYTo the chief Musician. A Psalm of David: to bring to remembrance. Make haste, OGod, to deliver me; Jehovah, hasten to my help.
BBELet your salvation come quickly, O God; come quickly to my help, O Lord.
WebsterTo 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.

What does Psalms 70:1 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Introduction

The psalmist prays for speedy deliverance, Psa 70:1; prays against those who sought his life, Psa 70:2, Psa 70:3; and for the blessedness of those who sought God, Psa 70:4; urges his speedy deliverance, Psa 70:5. The title in the Hebrew is, To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembranee. There seems little sense in this title. It seems to intimate that the Psalm was written as a memorial that David had been in sore affliction, and that God had delivered him. So the Vulgate, Septuagint, Ethiopic, and Arabic. It is almost word for word the same with the five last verses of Psalm 40, to the notes on which the reader is referred. Verse 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, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
The speedy destruction of the wicked, and the preservation of the godly. --This psalm is almost the same as the last five verses of Psa 40. While here we behold Jesus Christ set forth in poverty and distress, we also see him denouncing just and fearful punishment on his Jewish, heathen, and antichristian enemies; and pleading for the joy and happiness of his friends, to his Father's honour. Let us apply these things to our own troubled circumstances, and in a believing manner bring them, and the sinful causes thereof, to our remembrance. Urgent trials should always awake fervent prayers.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 70:1 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֱלֹהִ֥ים'E.lo.HimO GodH430
לְהַצִּילֵ֑נִיle.ha.tzi.Le.nito deliver meH5337
יְ֝הוָ֗הYah.wehO YahwehH3068
לְעֶזְרָ֥תִיle.'ez.Ra.tito help myH5833
חֽוּשָֽׁה\׃Chu.Shahmake haste !H2363

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 70:1

  • Psalms 40:13-17

    Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. …

  • Psalms 143:7

    Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

  • Psalms 71:12

    O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.

  • Psalms 69:18

    Draw nigh unto my soul, and redeem it: deliver me because of mine enemies.

  • Psalms 38:1

    A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

  • 2 Samuel 17:1-21

    Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only: And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace. And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. …

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1 David solicits God to the speedy destruction of the wicked, and preservation of the godly.

A.M. 2983. B.C. 1021. (Title.) A Psalm.This Psalm is almost word for word the same as the five last verses of Psalm 40; and it is written as a part of the succeeding Psalm in about 27 MSS. Both Psalms evidently appear to have been written by David during the rebellion of Absalom, and probably at the crisis when he heard of the sanguinary counsel which Ahithophel had given respecting him; or, as some suppose, when beyond Jordan.
2Sa 17:1-21
to bring.
38:1; *title
O God.
40:13-17; 69:18; 71:12; 143:7
to help me. Heb. to my help.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • 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.

  • Psalms 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.

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Psalms 70:1 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Al Músico principal: Salmo de David, para conmemorar. OH Dios, acude á librarme; apresúrate, oh Dios, á socorrerme.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Au chef de musique. De David; pour faire souvenir.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Eile, Gott, mich zu erretten, Jehova, zu meiner Hülfe!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Psalmus David, filiorum Jonadab, et priorum captivorum. In te, Domine, speravi; non confundar in æternum.