1. This is the second psalm which is a repetition of another, the former
being Psalm 53, which was a rehearsal of Psalm 14. The present differs from Psalm 40 at the outset, for that begins with “Be pleased,” and this, in our version,
more urgently with Make haste; or, as in the Hebrew, with an abrupt and
broken cry: “O God, to deliver me; O Lord,
to help me hasten.” It is not forbidden us,
in hours of dire distress, to ask for speed on God’s part in his coming to
rescue us. The only other difference between this and verse 13 of Psalm 40 is the putting of “Elohim” at the beginning of the verse for “Jehovah,” but why this is done, we
know not; perhaps the guesses of the critics are correct, but perhaps they are
not. As we have the words of this psalm twice in the letter, let them be doubly
with us in spirit. It is most fitting that we should day by day cry to God for
deliverance and help; our frailty and our many dangers render this a perpetual
necessity.
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