5. But I am poor and needy. Just the same plea as in
the preceding Psalm 69:29; it seems to be a favorite argument with tried saints;
evidently our poverty is our wealth, even as our weakness is our strength. Make haste unto me, O God. This is written instead of “yet the Lord thinketh upon
me” in Psalm 40, and there is a reason for the change, since the key note of
the psalm frequently dictates its close. Psalm 40 sings of God’s thoughts, and therefore ends with them; but the
especial note of Psalm 70 is “Make haste,” and therefore so it
concludes. Thou art my help and my deliverer. My help in trouble, my
deliverer out of it. O Lord, make no tarrying. Here is the name of “Jehovah” instead of “my God.” We are warranted in using all the various names of God, for each has
its own beauty and majesty, and we must reverence each by its holy use as well
as by abstaining from taking it in vain.
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