70:1(To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, to bring a
to remembrance.) [Make b haste], O God, to deliver me;
make haste to help me, O LORD.
(a) Which might put him in remembrance of his deliverance.
(b) He teaches us to be earnest in prayer even though God
seems to delay: for at his time he will hear us.
70:2 Let them be ashamed and c confounded that seek after my
soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion,
that desire my hurt.
(c) He was assured that the more they raged, the nearer
they were to destruction, and he the nearer to his
deliverance.
70:3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their d shame
that say, Aha, aha.
(d) By this we are taught not to mock at others in their
misery, lest the same fall on our own necks.
70:5 But I [am] e poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God:
thou [art] my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no
tarrying.
(e) Because he had felt God's help before, he grounds on
experience, and boldly seeks him for help.
