A vulnerable traveler cries urgently while hostile pursuers falter and friends rush to provide aid

Psalm 70

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Psalm 70 compresses crisis into an urgent appeal: hurry to help. The petitioner asks that malicious pursuers turn back, that seekers rejoice, and that everyone who loves salvation continually magnify God while the poor still wait for deliverance.
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1TO THE OVERSEER. BY DAVID. “TO CAUSE TO REMEMBER.” O God, [hurry] to deliver me, || O YHWH, hurry to help me.
2Let them be ashamed and confounded || Who are seeking my soul, || Let them be turned backward and blush || Who are desiring my evil.
3Let them turn back because of their shame, || Who are saying, “Aha, aha.”
4Let all those seeking You rejoice and be glad in You, || And let those loving Your salvation || Continually say, “God is magnified.”
5And I [am] poor and needy, O God, hurry to me, || You [are] my help and my deliverer, || O YHWH, do not linger!
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