“Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.”
This opening invocation calling for God to make haste to deliver the psalmist establishes the psalm as a prayer of urgent petition in extremity. The emphasis on speed indicates that delay itself would be unbearable; the affliction is acute. The reference to being made to be put to shame establishes that the psalmist faces humiliation and degradation. This verse establishes the tone: desperate urgency grounded in trust that God can and will act swiftly.
Church Fathers on Psalms 70:1
1. Thanks to the “Grain of wheat,” because He willed to die and to be multiplied: thanks to the only Son of God, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who disdained not to undergo our death, in order that He might make us worthy of His life. Behold Him that was single until He went hence; as He said in another Psalm, “Single I am until I go hence;” for He was a single grain of wheat in such sort as that He had in Himself a great fruitfulness of increase; in how many corns…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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