Psalms 70 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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

Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. That say, Aha, aha - האה האה Heach! heach! a note of supreme contempt. See on Psalms 40:15 (note).

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

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 - 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!

Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke [1831].