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Psalms 40:1

I waited patiently for the Lord, literally, "Waiting, I waited for Jehovah," the expression denoting the long siege of patient waiting for the help which the Messiah confidently expected; and He inclined unto Me, bowing down to Him in gracious tenderness, and heard My cry, as it was sent up to Him with such fervent insistence.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    PSALM XL _The benefit of confidence in God_, 1-3. _The blessedness of those who trust in God_, 4, 5. _The termination of the Jewish sacrifices in that of Christ_, 6-8. _The psalmist's resolution t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THE LORD - Margin, as in Hebrew, “In waiting I waited.” That is, “I continued to wait.” It was not a single, momentary act of expectation or hope; it was continuous; or, was per...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 40 Christ the Obedient One and the Fruit of His Work _ 1. The path of the Obedient One (Psalms 40:1)_ 2. His prayer and His comfort (Psalms 40:13)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    XL. A. PSALMS 40:1. A THANKSGIVING FOR DELIVERANCE. The Psalmist believes that his own gratitude will give confidence to others. God, he says, takes no special delight in sacrificial worship. It is gr...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _Mizmor._ App-65. OF DAVID. by David, and relating to the true David. I WAITED PATIENTLY. Hebrew in waiting. waited. Figure of speech _Poly...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _I waited patiently_ Such renderings as _I waited, yea I waited_, or, _I waited waitingly_(Vulg. _expectans expectavi_) are closer to the original. Cp. Psalms 38:15; Psalms 39:7: and the confession of...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The reward of patient waiting upon God....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 569 DAVID’S SUCCESS IN PRAYER AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO US Psalms 40:1. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, o...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _The benefit of confidence in God. Obedience is the best sacrifice. The sense of David's evils inflameth his prayer._ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. _TITLE._ מזמור לדוד למנצח _LAMNATSEACH L...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 40 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Three Stirring Reminiscences of King David's History. ANALYSIS Part I., Significant Memorials of David's Coronation. Stanza I., Psalms 40:1-3, A highly Figurative Descri...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _I WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THE LORD; AND HE INCLINED UNTO ME, AND HEARD MY CRY._ Psalms 40:1.-Messiah's new song of thanksgiving for redemption accomplished in His resurrection (Hebrews 10:6). He represe...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions, which many think to have been originally separate Pss. In Psalms 40:1 the writer recalls with thankfulness how God has heard his prayers and delivered hi...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I WAITED PATIENTLY. — As the margin shows, this is expressed by the common Hebrew idiom the infinitive absolute with the preterite. We may nearly express it by repetition: _I waited and waited._ INCLI...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לַ֝ † מְנַצֵּ֗חַ לְ דָוִ֥ד מִזְמֹֽור׃ ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 40:1 THE closing verses of this psalm reappear with slight changes as an independent whole in Psalms 70:1. The question arises whether that is a fragment or this a conglomerate. Modern opinion...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A JOYOUS TESTIMONY Psalms 40:1 This psalm follows appropriately on the two former, in which the psalmist had been detailing his sufferings. Here he celebrates deliverance. But a Greater than David is...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Again we find in this psalm the perfect structure found in Psalms 27:1. Praise prepares for prayer. The experience has mounted higher than in the preceding song (39). The singer still suffers diction,...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    "To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David." I waited (a) patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. (a) Though God deferred his help, yet he patiently abode till he was heard....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Himself; implying, that David composed this psalm, though the word is not expressed in Hebrew or Greek. (Berthier; T. iii.) --- The same articles, however, occur, which have been thus rendered before....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS This is altogether a gospel Psalm; and most certainly, from the authority of the Holy Ghost, we may safely conclude that here the Spirit of Christ, which was in the prophets, guided and dire...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I cannot but imagine that we sadly overlook the design of God the Holy Ghost in this most sublime Psalm, when we apply any part or portion of it to David king of Israel. That David was an eminent type...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    1._In waiting I waited _The beginning of this psalm is an expression of thanksgiving, in which David relates that he had been delivered, not only from danger, but also from present death. Some are of...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 40 AND 41. In Psalms 40 then Christ is seen, not only in His passage through the sorrows which beset His way, if He took up the cause of the disobedient and guil...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I WAITED PATIENTLY FOR THE LORD,.... Or "waiting I waited" i; which denotes continuance, constancy, and patience; and which Christ exercised in the garden, when he submitted himself entirely to the wi...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Psalms 40:1 «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. » I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. Ver. 1. _I waited patiently for the Lord_] Heb. In waiting I waited...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I waited patiently for the Lord_ Hebrew, קוה קויתי, _kavvo kivviti, in waiting I waited_, or, _in hoping I hoped_, which doubling of the word signifies that he waited or hoped diligently and earnestl...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    I WAITED PATIENTLY: _ Heb._ In waiting I waited...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Doubts and fears about the eternal state, are a horrible pit and miry clay, and have been so to many a dear child of God. There is power enough in God to help the weakest, and grace enough to hel...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    PSALM 40 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm is a celebration of God's great goodness and mercy vouchsafed unto him and all his people. It is certain and evident that David speaks some things in this Book of Psal...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 40:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) Psalm H4210 David H1732 waited H6960 (H8765) patiently H6960 (H8763) LORD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    DAVID REJOICES IN HIS PAST DELIVERANCE BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THAT IT WILL CAUSE MANY TO TRUST IN YHWH (PSALMS 40:1). Psalms 40:1 ‘I waited in patient waiting for YHWH, And he inclined to me, and hear...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    I WAITED The 40th Psalm speaks of Messiah, Jehovah's Servant, obedient unto death. The Psalm begins with the joy of Christ in resurrection (Psalms 40:1); (Psalms 40:2). He has been in the horrible pi...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. If I were to read this Psalm all through as referring to Christ, and to Christ only, I should be correct in so doing; but still, there is such a unity between...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    If our hearts are in trouble, as his was who wrote this Psalm, may we be able to act as wisely and as well as he did, and so obtain a like deliverance! Psalms 40:1. _I waited patiently for the LORD;...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    These are the words of David: they are the words of all God's tried and believing people; but above all they are the words of the Lord Jesus Christ himself. So complete is the union between Christ and...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's salvation extolled and prayer for deliverance. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who seek God in all their perplexities shall rejoice and be glad in Him, for He will not only...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This psalm of David is a consequence of the preseding. It is an ode of thanksgiving for liberation from the profound grief and sorrow under which he had groaned. Here he rises above the cloud, and as...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry._ WAITING FOR THE LORD There is a Divine law of waiting which has an essential connection with the larger law of giving....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:1. This psalm combines thanks for past mercies with a new request for God’s help. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_: “To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David.” The psalm is addressed to “the Chief Musician,” that he might set it to music for use in public worship. We have no means of...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE occasion of this psalm is some great deliverance which has been vouchsafed to the author of it, for which he desires to praise and thank God. Of this deliverance he speaks in Psalms 40:...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay, he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings ...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 9:18; James 5:7; Psalms 27:13; Psalms 27:14; Psalms 37:7;...

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