New Revised Standard Version
Be pleased, O God, to deliver me. O LORD, make haste to help me!

Contemporary English Version
Save me, LORD God! Hurry and help.

New American Bible
For the leader; of David. For remembrance. [2] Graciously rescue me, God! Come quickly to help me, LORD!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the Lord saved him. [2] O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.

Unto the end, a psalm for David, to bring to remembrance that the Lord saved him. [2] O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me.

A.

2983 B.C.

1021 (Title.) A Psalm. This Psalm is almost word for word the same as the five last verses of Psalm

40; and it is written as a part of the succeeding Psalm in about

27 MSS. Both Psalm evidently appear to have been written by David during the rebellion of Absalom, and probably at the crisis when he heard of the sanguinary counsel which Ahithophel had given respecting him; or, as some suppose, when beyond Jordan.

2 Samuel 17:1-21 And Achitophel said to Absalom: I will choose me twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night. . . .

to bring

Psalm 38:1 A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the sabbath. [2] Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.

O God

Psalm 40:13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me.

Psalm 69:18 Attend to my soul, and deliver it: save me because of my enemies.

Psalm 71:12 O God, be not thou far from me: O my God, make haste to my help.

Psalm 143:7 Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

to help me [heb.