Adam Clarke Bible CommentaryPsalms 70

Make haste to help me - I am in extreme distress, and the most imminent danger. Haste to help me, or I am lost.

Let them be turned backward - They are coming in a body against me. Lord, stop their progress!

That say, Aha, aha - האה האה Heach ! heach ! a note of supreme contempt. See on Psalm 40:15; (note).

Let God be magnified - Let his glory, mercy, and kindness, continually appear in the increase of his own work in the souls of his followers!

But I am poor and needy - ואביון עני ani veebyon, I am a poor man, and a beggar - an afflicted beggar; a sense of my poverty causes me to beg.

Thou art my help - I know thou hast enough, and to spare; and therefore I come to thee.

Make no tarrying - My wants are many, my danger great, my time short. O God, delay not!