Psa 40 | TSK | STEP | The benefit of confidence in God. Obedience is the best sacrifice. The sense of David's evils inflames his prayer. A.M. 2970. B.C. 1034. (Title.)This psalm is supposed to have been composed by David about the same time, and on the same occasion, as the two preceding; with this difference, that here he magnifies God for have obtained the mercy which he sought there. It also contains a remarkable prophecy of the incarnation and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. I waited. Heb. In waiting I waited. inclined.

Psalms 40

1 The benefit of confidence in God.

6 Obedience is the best sacrifice.

11 The sense of David's evils inflames his prayer.

A.M. 2970. B.C. 1034. (Title.)This psalm is supposed to have been composed by David about the same time, and on the same occasion, as the two preceding; with this difference, that here he magnifies God for have obtained the mercy which he sought there. It also contains a remarkable prophecy of the incarnation and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

I waited. Heb. In waiting I waited.

27:13,14; 37:7; Jas 5:7-11

inclined.

116:2; 130:2; Da 9:18

brought.

18:16,17; 71:20; 86:13; 116:3; 142:6,7; 143:3; Isa 24:22; Jon 2:5,6

Zec 9:11; Ac 2:24,27-31

horrible pit. Heb. pit of noise.

Mt 13:50

the miry.

69:2,14,15; Jer 38:6-12; La 3:53-55

set.

27:5; 61:2; Mt 7:24,25

established.

17:5; 18:36; 37:23; 119:133

And he.

33:3; 144:9; Re 5:9,10; 14:3

praise.

103:1-5; Isa 12:1-4

many.

34:1-6; 35:27; 52:6; 64:9,10; 142:7; Ho 3:5; Ac 2:31-41; 4:4

Blessed.

2:12; 34:8; 84:11,12; 118:8,9; Jer 17:7,8; Ro 15:12,13

respecteth.

15:4; 101:3-7; 119:21

as turn.

125:5; Isa 44:18-20; Jer 10:14,15; Jon 2:8; 2Th 2:9-11

Many.

136:4; Ex 11:8; 15:11; Job 5:9; 9:10; 26:14

thoughts.

71:15; 92:5; 139:6,17,18; Isa 55:8,9; Jer 29:11

they cannot, etc. or, none can order them unto thee.

Job 37:19,20

Sacrifice.

50:8; 51:16; 1Sa 15:22; Isa 1:11; 66:3; Jer 7:21-23; Ho 6:6; Mt 9:13

Mt 12:7; Heb 10:5-12

mine ears.

Ex 21:6; Job 33:16; Isa 50:4,5

opened. Heb. digged.

Lo.

Heb 10:7-9

in the.

Ge 3:15; Lu 24:27,44; Joh 5:39; Ac 10:43; 1Co 15:3,4; 1Pe 1:10,11

Re 19:10

I delight.

112:1; 119:16,24,47,92; Job 23:12; Jer 15:16; Joh 4:34; Ro 7:22

Ro 8:29

yea.

37:30,31; Pr 3:1; Jer 31:33; 2Co 3:3

within my heart. Heb. in the midst of my bowels.

preached.

22:22,25; 35:18; 71:15-18; Mr 16:15,16; Lu 4:16-22; Heb 2:12

not.

119:13,171,172

thou knowest.

139:2; Joh 21:17

not hid.

Eze 2:7; 3:17,18; Ac 20:20,21,26,27; Ro 10:9,10; 1Th 1:8; Re 22:17

righteousness.

Ro 1:16,17; 3:22-26; 10:3; Php 3:9

faithfulness.

Ac 13:32,33; Ro 15:8,9

salvation.

Isa 49:6; Lu 2:30-32; 3:6; 1Ti 1:15

lovingkindness.

25:10; 34:6; Mic 7:20; Joh 1:17; 3:16,17

Withhold.From this verse to the end, we have quite a new subject; for the former contains a thanksgiving, and this contains a supplication. It is nearly the same as the seventieth, and probably formed a distinct Psalm.

69:13,16

let thy.

23:6; 43:3; 57:3; 61:7; 85:10; Heb 5:7

innumerable.

22:11-19; Heb 4:15

mine.

38:4; Isa 53:6; Lu 18:13,14; 1Pe 3:18

they are.

19:12; 69:4

heart.

73:26; Ge 42:28; Lu 21:26

faileth. Heb. forsaketh.

Be.

25:17,18; Mt 26:36-44

make.

38:22; 70:1-5

Let them be ashamed.The verbs in the preceding verse, in which the psalmist simply prays for deliverance, are in the imperative; but here, and in the following verses, they are in the future tense, and naturally express the language of lively faith and hope, rather than that of wishing the destruction foreseen and predicted.

31:17,18; 35:4,26; 70:2,3; 71:13; Isa 41:11; 45:24

that.

Mt 21:38-41

driven.

9:3; Joh 18:6; Ac 9:4-6; 12:23,24

desolate.

69:24,25; 70:3; 73:19; 109:6-20; Lu 19:43,44; 21:23,24

say.

35:21,25; 70:3,4

all.

22:26; 35:27; 68:3; 105:3; Isa 65:13,14

love.