Psalms 70 Cross References - NSB

¹ ([Psalm of David]) Come quickly to rescue me, O God! Come quickly to help me, O Jehovah! ² Let those who seek my life be confused and put to shame. Let those who want my downfall be turned back and disgraced. ³ Let those who say: »Aha! Aha!« Be turned back because of their own shame. ⁴ Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad because of you. Let those who love your salvation continually say: »Let God be magnified!« ⁵ But I am oppressed and needy. O God, come to me quickly. You are my help and my deliverer. O Jehovah do not delay!

¹ Later Ahithophel said to Absalom: »Let me choose twelve thousand men. Tonight I will set out after David. ² »I will attack him while he is tired and discouraged. He will be frightened! All his men will run away. I will kill only the king. ³ »Then I will bring back all his men to you. It will be like a bride returning to her husband. Kill one man and the rest of the people return safely.« ⁴ This seemed like good advice to Absalom and all the Israelite leaders. ⁵ Absalom said: »Bring in Hushai. Let us hear what he has to say about this.« ⁶ Hushai came to Absalom. He told him what Ahithophel planned. Then Absalom said: »Should we do what he says? If we should not, can you come up with something better?« ⁷ Hushai said: »This time Ahithophel’s advice is not very good. ⁸ »You know your father and his followers are mighty warriors. They are as fierce as a mother bear whose cubs have just been killed. Your father has a lot of experience in fighting wars. He will not spend the night with the others. ⁹ »He has no doubt already found a hiding place in a cave or somewhere else. When people hear that some of your soldiers have been killed, everyone will think your entire army has been destroyed. ¹⁰ »Even the bravest man with a heart like a lion would lose his courage. All Israel knows that your father is a mighty man and the men with him are brave. ¹¹ »My advice is to gather all Israel’s troops from Dan to Beersheba. They are as numerous as the sand on the seashore. Lead them into battle yourself. ¹² »Find him and attack him! We will fall on him as dew falls on the ground. Neither he nor any of his men will be left alive. ¹³ »If he retreats into a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city and drag it into a valley. Not even a pebble will be found there.« ¹⁴ Absalom and all the people of Israel said: »The advice of Hushai from Archi’s family is better than Ahithophel’s advice. Jehovah commanded Ahithophel’s good advice to be defeated in order to ruin Absalom.« ¹⁵ Hushai told the priests Zadok and Abiathar: »Ahithophel advised Absalom and the leaders of Israel to do one thing. But I advised them to do something else. ¹⁶ »Quickly send messengers to tell David: ‘Do not rest tonight in the river crossings in the desert. Make sure you cross the river. Otherwise Your Majesty and all the troops with him will be wiped out.’« ¹⁷ Jonathan and Ahimaaz were waiting at En Rogel. They could not risk being seen coming into the city. A servant girl was to go and tell them. They were to go and tell King David. ¹⁸ A young man saw Jonathan and Ahimaaz and told Absalom. So both of them left quickly. They went to the home of a man in Bahurim who had a cistern in his courtyard. They climbed down into it. ¹⁹ The man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the opening of the cistern. She scattered grain over it so that no one would notice anything. ²⁰ Absalom’s officials came to the house and asked the woman: »Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?« She answered: »They crossed the river. The men looked for them but could not find them. So they returned to Jerusalem.« ²¹ After they left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan came up out of the cistern. Then they reported to King David. They told him what Ahithophel planned against him. They said: »Hurry up and cross the river.«

¹¹ But let all who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them ever sing for joy because you defend them. Let those who love your name exult in you.

¹⁰ All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed. They will turn back in sudden disgrace.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? ² How long must I make decisions alone with sorrow in my heart day after day? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

⁴ Let those who seek my life be put to shame and disgraced. Let those who plan my downfall be turned back in confusion.

²¹ They open their mouths against me and say: Aha! Aha! Our own eyes have seen it.

²⁵ Do not let them say: Aha, just what we wanted! We have swallowed him up. ²⁶ Let those who gloat over my downfall be thoroughly put to shame and confused. Let those who promote themselves at my expense be clothed with shame and disgrace. ²⁷ Let those who are happy when I am declared innocent joyfully sing and rejoice. Let them continually say: »Jehovah is great. He is happy when his servant has peace.«

¹⁴ Let all those who seek to end my life be confused and put to shame. Let those who want my downfall be turned back and disgraced. ¹⁵ Let those who say to me: Aha! Aha! Be stunned by their shame.

¹⁵ Let those who say to me: Aha! Aha! Be stunned by their shame. ¹⁶ Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say: Jehovah is greatly magnified!

¹⁶ Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say: Jehovah is greatly magnified! ¹⁷ I am oppressed and needy. May Jehovah think of me. You are my help and my salvation. O my God, do not delay!

¹⁷ I am oppressed and needy. May Jehovah think of me. You are my help and my salvation. O my God, do not delay!

¹⁸ Draw near to me and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.

²⁹ I am in pain and distress. O God, Let your salvation protect me.

¹² O God, do not be so distant from me. O my God, come quickly to help me. ¹³ Let those who accuse me come to a shameful end. Let those who want my downfall be covered with disgrace and humiliation.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah, do not correct me or discipline me in your burning anger.

¹³ O Jehovah, please rescue me! Come quickly to help me, O Jehovah!

¹² Rejoice in Jehovah, you righteous ones; and give thanks at the memory of his holy name.

²² I am oppressed and needy. I feel pain in my heart.

²⁹ Let those who accuse me wear disgrace as though it were clothing. Let them be wrapped in their shame as though it were a robe.

⁷ Answer me quickly, O Jehovah for my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me or I will become like those who go down to the pit.

¹ ([Psalm of David]) O Jehovah I cry out to you: Come quickly. Give ear to my voice (Listen to me) when I cry out to you.

¹⁷ Do not rejoice when your enemy falls. Do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles. ¹⁸ Jehovah will see it and be displeased and turn his anger away from him.

¹³ But the word of Jehovah to them was: »Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,« that they might go and fall backward, and be broken and snared and caught.

¹¹ »All who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish.

¹³ Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: My servants will eat, but you will go hungry. My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty. My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame! ¹⁴ My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit.

¹⁰ I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah. I will exult in my God for he has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

²⁵ Jehovah is good to those who are waiting for him, to the person seeking him.

³ »Tell the Ammonites: ‘Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah! The Lord Jehovah says: »Because you said, Aha! Against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into exile,

² »Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I will be filled, now that she is laid waste.’

² ‘»‘The Lord Jehovah says: »Because the enemy has spoken against you, aha! And the everlasting heights have become our possession.

²⁰ »Truly I tell you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

⁶ When he said to them I am he they drew back and fell to the ground.

¹⁸ »This man obtained a field with the reward of his wickedness; and falling headlong, he burst open and all his intestines spilled out. (Matthew 27:5 says he hanged himself. The rope broke or the branch on which it was tied broke. Then he fell to the ground and burst open.)

³⁷ »In just a little while, he who is coming will come. He will not delay!«

²⁰ He who testifies to these things says: »I come quickly.« Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!