Teks -- Psalms 70:1-2 (NET)

Psalm 70

70:1 For the music director; by David; written to get God’s attention. O God, please be willing to rescue me! O Lord, hurry and help me! 70:2 May those who are trying to take my life be embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed!

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Clarke: Psa 70:1 - Make haste to help me

Make haste to help me - I am in extreme distress, and the most imminent danger. Haste to help me, or I am lost.

Clarke: Psa 70:2 - Let them be turned backward

Let them be turned backward - They are coming in a body against me. Lord, stop their progress!

Defender: Psa 70:1 - make haste

The five verses of this psalm are practically identical to the last five verses of Psalm 40. Psalm 40 was a Messianic psalm and so is Psa 70:1-5. Perhaps David was led to tie them both together to emphasize their anticipation of the suffering Messiah."

TSK: Psa 70:1 - to bring // O God // to help me

to bring : Psa 38:1 *title

O God : Psa 40:13-17, Psa 69:18, Psa 71:12, Psa 143:7

to help me : Heb. to my help

TSK: Psa 70:2 - Let // my soul // be turned

Let : Psa 6:10, Psa 35:4, Psa 35:26, Psa 71:13, Psa 109:29; Isa 41:11

my soul : Rather,""my life,""naphshee ; for the word has frequently this meaning.

be turned : Isa 28:13; Joh 18:6

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Haydock: Psa 70:1 - Unjust

A prayer for perseverance.

Unjust. Achitophel and Absalom. (Calmet)

Haydock: Psa 70:1 - Of the sons of Jonadab // Hoped // Vain is the salvation of man

Of the sons of Jonadab. The Rechabites, of whom see Jeremias xxxv. By this addition of the seventy-two interpreters [Septuagint], we gather that this psalm was usually sung in the synagogue, in the person of the Rechabites, and of those who were first carried away into captivity. (Challoner) ---

This first captivity happened under Joakim, in the year of the world 3398, the second, under Jechonias, 3405, and the last, when the city was destroyed and Sedecias ws taken, 34016. (Usher) ---

The Rechabites entered Jerusalem a little before the first of these events, and set the people an example of obedience by submitting to Nabuchodonosor, as Jeremias directed. (Bellarmine) (Menochius) ---

St. Jerome considers their being confined within the walls, as their first captivity. (E. ad Paul. and ad Rust.) ---

But there is nothing in this title in Hebrew, Eusebius, &c., and several copies of the Septuagint acknowledge the same; (Calmet) so that it is of no great authority. (Berthier) ---

The psalm contains the sentiments of the captives, (Theodoret) or of David, persecuted by his son: and in a more sublime sense, of Jesus Christ, complaining of treason and cruelty. (Calmet) ---

All the saints, under persecution, may adopt the same language. (Berthier) ---

Hoped. These three verses are almost exactly the same, Psalm xxx. Bias "being asked what was sweet to men, answered, hope." (Laertius 1.) ---

Vain is the salvation of man. But hope confoundeth not, Psalm lix. 13., and Romans v. 5. (Calmet)

Haydock: Psa 70:2 - Justice

Justice. Or mercy, Psalm xxx. 1. I have not injured Absalom, &c. (Calmet) ---

God avengeth the injuries done to his servants. (Worthington)

Gill: Psa 70:1 - Make haste, O God, to deliver me // make haste to help me, O Lord

Make haste, O God, to deliver me,.... The phrase, "make haste", is supplied from the following clause in Psa 40:13; it is, "be pleased, O Lord", or "Jehovah". The Targum renders it, "to deliver us"; very wrongly;

make haste to help me, O Lord; See Gill on Psa 22:19.

Gill: Psa 70:2 - Let them be ashamed and confounded // that seek after my soul // let them be turned backward

Let them be ashamed and confounded,.... In Psa 40:14 it is added, "together"; See Gill on Psa 40:14;

that seek after my soul; or "life"; in Psa 40:14 it is added, "to destroy it"; for that was the end of their seeking after it;

let them be turned backward, &c. See Gill on Psa 40:14.