“But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.”
The final affirmation that God is the help of the psalmist and the one who brings salvation, along with the plea that God not be far away, articulates the fundamental trust that undergirds the entire prayer. The acknowledgment of complete dependence on God establishes that the psalmist has nowhere to turn but to God. The plea that God not be far away indicates the fear that God might delay or withhold aid. This verse closes the psalm with the reassertion of dependence on God as the sole source of hope.
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