Chapter summary

Psalm 70 opens with an urgent plea addressed to God and the Lord, asking for swift deliverance and help from those seeking the speaker's life. The speaker requests that individuals wishing him harm, as well as those mocking him with taunts, experience shame, confusion, repulsion, humiliation, and retreat. Conversely, the text expresses a wish that all who seek and love God's salvation may rejoice, be glad, and continually declare that God should be magnified. Identifying himself as poor and needy, the speaker reiterates his call for God to hurry to him without delay. Finally, the psalm concludes with the acknowledgment that the Lord serves as his helper and deliverer.

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