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- Chapter 70
- Verse 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.
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Gill's Exposition
But I am poor and needy,.... In Psa 40:17 it follows, yet "the Lord thinketh on me"; instead of which it is here; see Gill on Psa 40:17;
make haste unto me, O God; which repeats for sense the same…
Barnes' Notes
But I am poor and needy - This is the same as in Psa 40:17. Make haste unto me, O God - Hebrew, אלהים 'Elohiym. In the parallel place in Psa 40:17, this is, “The Lord thinketh upon me,” - where the…
The title tells us that this psalm was designed to bring to remembrance; that is, to put God in remembrance of his mercy and promises (for so we are said to do when we pray to him and plead with him.…
Cambridge Bible
But I&c. But as for me, who am afflicted and needy. Cp. Psa 69:29; Psa 69:33; Psa 9:18; Psa 35:10; Psa 37:14; Psa 86:1; Psa 109:22.
make haste unto me, O God So Psa 141:1. "The text of Psa 40:17, "The…
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