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5But I am poor and needy: make haste{H8798)} unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer{H8764)}; O LORD, make no tarrying{H8762)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
A Psalm of David. LORD, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
But I am poor and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high.
He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)The title tells us that this psalm was designed to bring to remembrance; that is, to put God in remembrance of his mercy and promises (for so we are said to do when we pray to him and plead with him. Isa. 43:26; Put me in remembrance )--not that the Eternal Mind needs a remembrancer, but this honour he is pleased to put upon the prayer of faith. Or, rather, to put himself and others in remembrance…
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