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Psalm 70 Bible study: Come to me quickly

Psalm 70's first and last verses ask God to come quickly with one Hebrew verb, chush (70:1, 70:5): the Psalms have it nine times, and only this psalm twice. In between, one verb, seek, names two groups: those who seek the psalmist's soul, and those who seek God (70:2, 70:4).

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“But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. LORD, don’t delay.”
Psalm 70:5 · World English Bible

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“Psalm 70 prays both about those who seek the psalmist's soul and about those who seek God.”

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What's really going on

Hurry, first and last

In the text

The title reads "For the Chief Musician. By David. A reminder." (70:1) (tap reminder). The same Hebrew word is in the title of Psalm 38, where the WEB has for a memorial (Psalm 38:1), and the chapter on Psalm 38 sets the two titles side by side; these notes don't explain the word further. Then the prayer: "Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, LORD" (70:1). In Hebrew the WEB's Hurry and Come quickly are one word, chushah, and it is the verse's last word (tap quickly): the first half, God, to deliver me, has no word for hurrying of its own. The psalm's last verse has it again: "Come to me quickly, God" (70:5). And the psalm ends, "LORD, don’t delay" (70:5) (tap delay). The Psalms have this verb nine times in Hebrew, and Psalm 70 is the only psalm that has it twice. Its first verse and its last both ask God to come quickly.

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  • Those who seek my soul, and those who seek you
  • But I am poor and needy
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  • "Help in time of need"
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The Hebrew word behind it

חוּשׁchushsay KHOOSH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "haste, make haste". Strong's: "to hurry". "Come quickly to help me, LORD" (70:1): in Hebrew the verse's last word is this verb, chushah. It comes again in the psalm's last verse: "Come to me quickly, God" (70:5), chushah li. The Psalms have it nine times in Hebrew, and Psalm 70 is the only psalm with it twice. Psalm 141 has the same two words as 70:5: "LORD, I have called on you. Come to me quickly!" (Psalm 141:1). And Psalm 119 has it of the psalmist's own hurry: "I will hurry, and not delay, to obey your commandments" (Psalm 119:60), where delay is another verb.

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Psalm 70 Bible study questions

  1. 1"Hurry, God, to deliver me" (70:1). When have you prayed for God to hurry? What was it like to wait?
  2. 2"Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you" (70:4). In a short prayer about his own trouble, the psalmist also prays for everyone who seeks God. Who could you pray that for this week?
  3. 3"But I am poor and needy" (70:5). What makes it hard to come to God as someone in need? What helps?

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