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Psalms 70:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

This psalm is substantially a repetition of the last five verses of Psalms 40:1-17 (which see). It was most likely detached and altered for a special occasion.—S.

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