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This psalm is adapted to a state of affliction; it is copied almost word for word from the fortieth, and, some think for that reason, is entitled, "a psalm to bring to remembrance;" for it may be of use sometimes to pray over the prayers we have formerly made to God upon similar occasions, which may be done with new affections. David here prays that God would send, I. Help to himself, Ps 70:1,5. II. Shame to his enemies, Ps 70:2,3. III. Joy to his friends, Ps 70:4. These five verses were the Ps 40:13-17,70:1-5 He seems to have intended this short prayer to be both for himself and us a salve for every sore, and therefore to be always in mind; and in singing we may apply it to our particular troubles, whatever they are.
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Urgent Petitions
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恳切的祈求
交与伶长。大卫的记念诗。
¹ 神啊，求你快快搭救我；耶和华啊，求你速速帮助我。
² 愿那些寻索我命的，抱愧蒙羞；愿那些喜悦我遭害的，退后受辱。
³ 愿那些对我说「啊哈、啊哈」的，因羞愧退后。
⁴ 愿一切寻求你的，因你高兴欢喜；愿那些爱你救恩的常说：当尊神为大。
⁵ 但我是困苦穷乏的；神啊，求你速速到我这里来；你是帮助我的，搭救我的；耶和华啊，求你不要耽延。
标题告诉我们本篇是为「记念」而设；即提醒神记念他的怜悯与应许（因为我们向他祷告、向他申诉时，便被说成是如此行——赛43:26「你要提醒我」）——并非永生的心思需要提醒者，而是他乐意将这尊荣加给信心的祷告。或者更确切地说，是提醒自己和他人记念从前的患难，使我们永不放松警惕，常常预期苦难，并记念从前的灵修，使雨后云返回之时，我们能再用从前用以得安慰得救助的同样方法。我们在祷告中可用我们屡次用过的话：我们的救主在痛苦中三次祷告，所说的话都是一样；大卫在此也用他从前用过的言语，但并非毫无改动，表明他无意把自己或别人拘泥于这些话作为形式。神看的是心，不是言语。
一、大卫在此求神速速救助他、扶助他（诗70:1、5）：「我是困苦穷乏的」，在缺乏与患难中，心里也大为作难。贫穷与需要，是向无穷怜悯之神祷告时非常好的恳求，他不轻看忧伤痛悔之心所发的叹息，他已宣告灵里贫穷的人有福，又用美物充满饥饿的人。他求，1. 神为他显现，按时搭救他脱离患难。2. 与此同时，神来帮助他，使他在患难之下不至下沉昏厥。3. 神快快行这事：「求你快快」（诗70:1），又（诗70:5），「求你速速……不要耽延」。有时神似乎延迟帮助自己的百姓，正是为激发如此恳切的愿望。「信的人必不着急」（赛28:16原文），不抢先于神的筹算，不强开出路、不取不正当的救助之法；却可借谦卑祷告迎见神、求他快施所愿之助而「着急」。「『求你速速到我这里来』，因我心渴慕你；若不速被救助，我必灭亡。除你之外我无可指望救济：『你是帮助我的，搭救我的。』你已应许作一切寻求你之人的帮助；我指望你作我的；我屡次经历你如此；你又充足——全足——能如此；所以求你快快到我这里来。」
二、他求神使仇敌满面羞愧（诗70:2-3）。请看，1. 他如何描述他们：他们寻索他的命——他的性命，要除灭它——他的心思，要搅扰它，引他远离神去犯罪、去绝望。他们喜悦他遭害——他的倾覆；当灾祸临到他或威胁他时，他们说：「『啊哈、啊哈！我们正要如此；我们现在必达到目的，看见他灭亡了。」他们如此心怀恶毒，如此狂妄。2. 他对他们的祷告是什么：「『愿他们抱愧蒙羞』；愿他们被领到悔改，因充满羞愧而寻求你的名（诗83:16）；愿他们看见自己攻击你所保护之人的过错愚妄，并『因嫉妒而抱愧』（赛26:11）。无论如何，愿他们谋害我的计谋受挫、计策被破；愿他们从恶毒的追逼中退后，那时他们必抱愧蒙羞，如犹太人的仇敌『在自己眼中看为可轻视的』。」
三、他求神使朋友心里喜乐（诗70:4），愿一切寻求神、爱他救恩——愿望救恩、以救恩为乐、又倚靠救恩——的人，都常有喜乐赞美的内容和二者之心；那时他无疑必在他所求的福分中得着一份；我们若符合这品性，也必如此。1. 让我们以事奉神为大业，以神的恩惠为大乐、大悦，因为这就是寻求他、爱他的救恩。让我们以在神里面求福为大事，以享受这福为满足。一颗爱主救恩、并把它放在任何世俗利益之上——以至甘愿撇下一切而不愿冒险失去救恩——的心，是我们有分于它、有权拥有它的好证据。2. 那么让我们确信，若非我们自己的过失，「主的喜乐」必充满我们的心，「主的高举赞美」必充满我们的口。那些寻求神的——若及早寻求、又殷勤寻求——必在他里面欢喜快乐，因为他们寻求他便是他对他们善意的证据，又是他们寻见他的凭据（诗105:3）。寻求神之中也有喜乐欢乐，因为宗教基本原则之一便是：神「赏赐那殷勤寻求他的人」。那些爱神救恩的人，必乐意地说，并且持续乐意地说——因为赞美神若作我们恒常之业，便必成为我们恒常之筵席——「当尊神为大」，正如他必在永恒之中、在他百姓的救恩中，被尊为大。凡愿圣徒得安慰、神得荣耀的人，都不能不衷心向这祷告说「阿们」——愿那些爱神救恩的人常 说：「当尊神为大」。
英文原文
Urgent Petitions
To the chief musician. A psalm of David, to bring to remembrance.
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.
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.
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.
The title tells us that this psalm was designed to bring to remembrance; that is, to put God in remembrance of his mercy and promises (for so we are said to do when we pray to him and plead with him. Isa 43:26, Put me in remembrance)—not that the Eternal Mind needs a remembrancer, but this honour he is pleased to put upon the prayer of faith. Or, rather, to put himself and others in remembrance of former afflictions, that we may never be secure, but always in expectation of troubles, and of former devotions, that when the clouds return after the rain we may have recourse to the same means which we have formerly found effectual for fetching in comfort and relief. We may in prayer use the words we have often used before: our Saviour in his agony prayed thrice, saying the same words; so David here uses the words he had used before, yet not without some alterations, to show that he did not design to tie himself or others to them as a form. God looks at the heart, not at the words.
I. David here prays that God would make haste to relieve and succour him (Ps 70:1,5): I am poor and needy, in want and distress, and much at a loss within myself. Poverty and necessity are very good pleas in prayer to a God of infinite mercy, who despises not the sighing of a contrite heart, who has pronounced a blessing upon the poor in spirit, and who fills the hungry with good things. He prays, 1. That God would appear for him to deliver him from his troubles in due time. 2. That in the mean time he would come in to his aid, to help him under his troubles, that he might not sink and faint. 3. That he would do this quickly: Make haste (Ps 70:1), and again (Ps 70:5), Make haste, make no tarrying. Sometimes God seems to delay helping his own people, that he may excite such earnest desires as these. He that believes does not make haste, so as to anticipate or outrun the divine counsels, so as to force a way of escape or to take any unlawful methods of relief; but he may make haste by going forth to meet God in humble prayer that he would hasten the desired succour. "Make haste unto me, for the longing desire of my soul is towards thee; I shall perish if I be not speedily helped. I have no other to expect relief from: Thou art my help and my delivered. Thou hast engaged to be so to all that seek thee; I depend upon thee to be so to me; I have often found thee so; and thou art sufficient, all-sufficient, to be so; therefore make haste to me."
II. He prays that God would fill the faces of his enemies with shame, Ps 70:2,3. Observe, 1. How he describes them; they sought after his soul—his life, to destroy that—his mind, to disturb that, to draw him from God to sin and to despair. They desired his hurt, his ruin; when any calamity befel him or threatened him they said, "Aha, aha! so would we have it; we shall gain our point now, and see him ruined." Thus spiteful, thus insolent, were they. 2. What his prayer is against them: "Let them be ashamed; let them be brought to repentance, so filled with shame as that they may seek thy name (Ps 83:16); let them see their fault and folly in fighting against those whom thou dost protect, and be ashamed of their envy, Isa 26:11. However, let their designs against me be frustrated and their measures broken; let them be turned back from their malicious pursuits, and then they will be ashamed and confounded, and, like the enemies of the Jews, much cast down in their own eyes," Ge 6:16.
III. He prays that God would fill the hearts of his friends with joy (Ps 70:4), that all those who seek God and love his salvation, who desire it, delight in it, and depend upon it, may have continual matter for joy and praise and hearts for both; and then he doubts not but that he should put in for a share of the blessing he prays for; and so may we if we answer the character. 1. Let us make the service of God our great business and the favour of God our great delight and pleasure, for that is seeking him and loving his salvation. Let the pursuit of a happiness in God be our great care and the enjoyment of it our great satisfaction. A heart to love the salvation of the Lord, and to prefer it before any secular advantages whatsoever, so as cheerfully to quit all rather than hazard our salvation, is a good evidence of our interest in it and title to it. 2. Let us then be assured that, if it be not our own fault, the joy of the Lord shall fill our minds and the high praises of the Lord shall fill our mouths. Those that seek God, if they seek him early and seek him diligently, shall rejoice and be glad in him, for their seeking him is an evidence of his good-will to them and an earnest of their finding him, Ps 105:3. There is pleasure and joy even in seeking God, for it is one of the fundamental principles of religion that God is the rewarder of all those that diligently seek him. Those that love God's salvation shall say with pleasure, with constant pleasure (for praising God, if we make it our continual work, will be our continual feast), Let God be magnified, as he will be, to eternity, in the salvation of his people. All who wish well to the comfort of the saints, and to the glory of God, cannot but say a hearty amen to this prayer, that those who love God's salvation may say continually, Let God be magnified.
本篇适用于患难之境;它几乎逐字摘自第四十篇,故有人以为因此题为「纪念诗」;因有时借重我们在相似场合已向神所发过的祷告来祷告,也大有用处,只要是以新的情感。大卫在此求神赐:一、给自己帮助(诗70:1,5);二、给仇敌羞辱(诗70:2,3);三、给朋友喜乐(诗70:4)。这五节原是(诗40:13-17)。他似乎有意使这短祷既为自己又为我们作每种创伤的良药,故当常存于心;我们唱时可将其应用于我们特别的患难,无论其为何。