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Psalms 70:5

Psalms 70:5

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

But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God. Instead of this last clause, has, "Yet the Lord thinketh upon me," which cannot be ascribed to a corruption, but must be an alteration made deliberately. Thou art my Help and my Deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying. Identical with , except that here once more "Jehovah" replaces "Elohim."

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