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Psalm 70 Bible in Basic English

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About BBE
  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Simplified language
  • 1965
  • Public domain

Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

Notes on this text (1)
BBE Bible in Basic English
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 To the chief music-maker. Of David. To keep in memory. Let your salvation come quickly, O God; come quickly to my help, O Lord.
1 Al Músico principal: Salmo de David, para conmemorar. OH Dios, [acude] á librarme; apresúrate, oh Dios, á socorrerme.
2 Let those who go after my soul have shame and trouble; let those who have evil designs against me be turned back and made foolish.
2 Sean avergonzados y confusos los que buscan mi vida; sean vueltos atrás y avergonzados los que mi mal desean.
3 Let those who say Aha, aha! be turned back as a reward of their shame.
3 Sean vueltos, en pago de su afrenta [hecha], los que dicen: ¡Ah! ¡ah!
4 Let all those who are looking for you be glad and have joy in you; let the lovers of your salvation ever say, May God be great.
4 Gócense y alégrense en ti todos los que te buscan; y digan siempre los que aman tu salud: Engrandecido sea Dios.
5 But I am poor and in need; come to me quickly, O God; you are my help and my saviour; let there be no waiting, O Lord.
5 Yo estoy afligido y menesteroso; apresúrate á mí, oh Dios: ayuda mía y mi libertador eres tú; oh Jehová, no te detengas.
Cross references (5)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 40:13–17; Psalm 143:7; Psalm 71:12; Psalm 69:18; Psalm 38:1
  2. 2 Psalm 35:4; Psalm 35:26; Isaiah 41:11; John 18:6; Psalm 71:13
  3. 3 Psalm 40:15; Proverbs 24:17–18; Acts 1:18; Ezekiel 25:3; Psalm 35:21
  4. 4 Psalm 40:16; Lamentations 3:25; Isaiah 61:10; Psalm 35:27; Isaiah 65:13–14
  5. 5 Psalm 40:17; Psalm 141:1; Revelation 22:20; Psalm 69:29; Hebrews 10:37

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXIX)

    We have been born into this world, and added to the people of God, at that period wherein already the herb from a grain of mustard seed hath spread out its branches; wherein already the leaven, which at first was contemptible, hath leavened three measures, that is, the whole round world repeopled by the three sons of Noe: for from …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)