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1A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
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But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily. …
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Mercy to accept what we do well, and grace to keep us from doing ill, are the two things which we are here taught by David’s example to pray to God for. I. David loved prayer, and he begs of God that his prayers might be heard and answered, Ps. 141:1 , 2 . David cried unto God . His crying denotes fervency in prayer; he prayed as one in earnest. His crying to God denotes faith and fixedness in pra…
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