Psalm 70

MAKE haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me; O Lord.

2 Let them be ashamed ad confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, ad put to confusion, that desire my hurt.

3 Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.

4 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: ad let such as love thy salvation say con-tinually, Let God be magnified.

The same idea (Pa. LXIX: 30 and 32) of seek-ing God in Joy and Gladness is repeated “Let God be magnified,” i.e., let us have more and more of God now that we have come to know what God really is, viz., the Ever-Joyous Spirit of Life, rejoicing in all His works. “Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember Thee in Thy ways” (Isa. LXIV: 5), i.e., who realize that the Spirit’s way is Rejoicing in Its own Power of Self-Expression, and using that Power in right ways, and who therefore seek to reproduce the same Way.

5 But I am poor ad needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O Lord, make no tarrying.

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