Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Psalms 70:1 - 70:1

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Keil and Delitzsch Commentary - Psalms 70:1 - 70:1


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We see at once at the very beginning, in the omission of the רְצֵה (Psa 40:14), that what we have here before us is a fragment of Ps 40, and perhaps a fragment that only accidentally came to have an independent existence. The לְהַצִּילֵנִי, which was under the government of רצה, now belongs to הוּשָׁה, and the construction is without example elsewhere. In Psa 70:3 (= Psa 40:15) יַחַד and לִסְפֹּותָהּ are given up entirely; the original is more full-toned and soaring. Instead of יָשֹׁמּוּ, torpescant, Psa 70:4 has יָשׁוּבוּ, recedant (as in Ps 6:11, cf. Psa 9:18), which is all the more flat for coming after יסגו אחור. In Psa 70:4, after וְיאמרים the לִי, which cannot here (cf. on the contrary, Psa 35:21) be dispensed with, is wanting.