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- Introduction
- Psalm Summaries
- Psalm 61
- Superscription
- Psalm 62
- Psalm 63
- Psalm 70
- The Superscription
- The Psalm
- References and Footnotes
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Introduction
Psalm Summaries
Psalm 61
Superscription
Psalm 62
Psalm 63
Psalm 70
A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance
The Superscription
The Psalm
Psalm 70 is relatively short Psalm, but there were two verses that stood out to me.
The first verse is David pleading for God to “make haste” or put more bluntly, hurry up. I know sometimes I pray and if feels like God is never going to answer the prayer—the pain gets too bad, the anxiety lasts too long, the answer hasn’t come, etc. Pastors are constantly telling us God works on His own time, so it feels pretty rookie-like to feel impatient with God. However, we see that David struggled with the exact same thing. David was a man after God’s Heart and if he struggled with patience related to God’s timing, we will too.
In Psalm 70:5, David calls himself “poor and needy.” We know David wasn’t poor or needy in the economic sense, which made me assume this was in reference to being poor in spirit (and needy in desire to be loved). Not satisfied with assuming, I looked up the Hebrew in an interlinear Bible. The word used in the Hebrew version from which we derive the English could mean afflicted or depressed, confirming the assumption.[1]
References and Footnotes
- “Strong’s H6041. עָנִי”. Blue Letter Bible; visited April 2024
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