Wellspring

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Psalms 70

World English Bible · public domain · whole chapter

Psalms 69 Psalms 71

¹Hurry, God, to deliver me.

²Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.

³Let them be turned because of their shame

⁴Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.

⁵But I am poor and needy.

¹Hurry, God, to deliver me.

²Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.

³Let them be turned because of their shame

⁴Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.

⁵But I am poor and needy.

¹Hurry, God, to deliver me.

²Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul.

³Let them be turned because of their shame

⁴Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.

⁵But I am poor and needy.

In context

Psalms 70 is read as a whole chapter — not a single verse pulled free of what surrounds it.

Immediately before

³²The humble have seen it, and are glad.

³³For Yahweh hears the needy,

³⁴Let heaven and earth praise him;

³⁵For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah.

³⁶The children also of his servants shall inherit it.

Immediately after

¹In you, Yahweh, I take refuge.

²Deliver me in your righteousness, and rescue me.

³Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go.

⁴Rescue me, my God, from the hand of the wicked,

⁵For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh,

How this book begins

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s1:2 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,

⁴The wicked are not so,

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,