“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.
Church Fathers on Psalms 70:5
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…
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