1 To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David to bring to remembrance. [Make haste], O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
2 \\70:1\\To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
3 \\70:2\\Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
4 \\70:3\\Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
5 \\70:4\\Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
6 \\70:5\\But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no delay.
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Today's Verse
Ye are of `your' father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
Verse Of The DayNearly identical to the closing verses of Psalms 40:13-17, this psalm contrasts the shame coming to David's enemies with the joy of those who love God's salvation. Psalms 71 picks up the same trust from the perspective of old age.
