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Psalm 70.
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A brief, urgent prayer asks God to hurry to the psalmist’s aid. Those who seek God are invited to rejoice in his greatness.
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- 1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
- 2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
- 3Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
- 4Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
- 5But 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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