Hurry and help me, ¹  O Lord, my deliverer!

Please be willing, O Lord, to rescue me! O Lord, hurry and help me! ¹ 

For the music director; by David; written to get God’s attention. ²  O God, please be willing to rescue me! ³  O Lord, hurry and help me! ⁴ 

Moses quickly bowed ¹  to the ground and worshiped

“This is why ¹  my troubled thoughts bring me back ²  – because of my feelings ³  within me.

for they ¹  are eager ²  to inflict harm, ³  and they hasten ⁴  to shed blood. ⁵ 

O God, do not remain far away from me! My God, hurry and help me! ¹ 

In the morning, at the earliest sign of daylight, the king got up and rushed to the lions’ den.

In those days ¹  Mary got up and went hurriedly into the hill country, to a town of Judah, ² 

So they hurried off and located Mary and Joseph, and found the baby lying in a manger. ¹ 

The Beloved to Her Lover: Make haste, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.

Your children hurry back, while those who destroyed and devastated you depart.

I rashly declared, ¹  “All men are liars.”

I keep your commands eagerly and without delay. ¹ 

The Egyptians were urging ¹  the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly, ²  for they were saying, “We are all dead!”

I said, “Indeed, ¹  let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.

This is how you are to eat it – dressed to travel, ¹  your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. ² 

Yet do not depart quickly or leave in a panic. ¹  For the Lord goes before you; the God of Israel is your rear guard.

So they tracked them ¹  as far as the Jordan. The road was filled with clothes and equipment that the Syrians had discarded in their haste. ²  The scouts ³  went back and told the king.

Do not ignore ¹  your servant, for I am in trouble! Answer me right away! ²