Psalm 70:5
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New International Version (©2011)
But as for me, I am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; LORD, do not delay.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But as for me, I am poor and needy; please hurry to my aid, O God. You are my helper and my savior; O LORD, do not delay.

English Standard Version (©2001)
But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay!

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
But I am afflicted and needy; Hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I am afflicted and needy; hurry to me, God. You are my help and my deliverer; LORD, do not delay.

International Standard Version (©2012)
As for me, I am poor and needy. God, come quickly to me. You are my helper and my deliverer. LORD, please do not delay.

NET Bible (©2006)
I am oppressed and needy! O God, hurry to me! You are my helper and my deliverer! O LORD, do not delay!

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And I am poor and afflicted, oh, God, stay with me; you are my helper and my deliverer; my God, do not delay!

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But I am oppressed and needy. O God, come to me quickly. You are my help and my savior. O LORD, do not delay!

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

American King James Version
But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

American Standard Version
But I am poor and needy; Make haste unto me, O God: Thou art my help and my deliverer; O Jehovah, make no tarrying.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But I am needy and poor; O God, help me. Thou art my helper and my deliverer: O Lord, make no delay.

Darby Bible Translation
But I am afflicted and needy: make haste unto me, O God. Thou art my help and my deliverer: O Jehovah, make no delay.

English Revised Version
But I am poor and needy; make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Webster's Bible Translation
But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no delay.

World English Bible
But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay.

Young's Literal Translation
And I am poor and needy, O God, haste to me, My help and my deliverer art Thou, O Jehovah, tarry Thou not!

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

70:1-5 The speedy destruction of the wicked, and the preservation of the godly. - This psalm is almost the same as the last five verses of #Ps 40". While here we behold Jesus Christ set forth in poverty and distress, we also see him denouncing just and fearful punishment on his Jewish, heathen, and antichristian enemies; and pleading for the joy and happiness of his friends, to his Father's honour. Let us apply these things to our own troubled circumstances, and in a believing manner bring them, and the sinful causes thereof, to our remembrance. Urgent trials should always awake fervent prayers.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God. Instead of this last clause, Psalm 40:17 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 Psalm 40:17, except that here once more "Jehovah" replaces "Elohim."

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But I am poor and needy,.... In Psalm 40:17 it follows, yet "the Lord thinketh on me"; instead of which it is here; see Gill on Psalm 40:17;

make haste unto me, O God; which repeats for sense the same petition as in Psalm 71:1;

thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying; in Psalm 40:17 it is, "O my God".

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Come Quickly to Help Me, O Lord
…3Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha. 4Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. 5But I am poor and needy: make haste to me, O God: you are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.

Psalm 22:19 But you, LORD, do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me.
Psalm 40:17 But as for me, I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; you are my God, do not delay.
Psalm 69:29 But as for me, afflicted and in pain-- may your salvation, God, protect me.
Psalm 70:4 But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who long for your saving help always say, "The LORD is great!"
Psalm 71:12 Do not be far from me, my God; come quickly, God, to help me.
Psalm 86:1 A prayer of David. Hear me, LORD, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.
Psalm 141:1 A psalm of David. I call to you, LORD, come quickly to me; hear me when I call to you.