1.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O LORD.
2.
Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt.
(2) There are two omissions here from Psalms 40:14, “together” and “to destroy it.”
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: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
(4) For a reward of . . .—Psalms 40:14, “and put to shame.” The change is probably a copyist’s error.
5.
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
(5) Make haste unto me, O God.—In Psalms 40:17, “The Lord (Adonai) thinketh on me.”