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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 40:5

Many — This verse seems to be interposed as a wall of partition, between that which David speaks in his own person, and that which he speaks in the person of the Messiah, in the following verses.

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See also Psalms 40:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 40:5. _MANY _- ARE _THY WONDERFUL WORKS_] The psalmist seems here astonished and confounded at the _counsels, loving-kindnesses_, and _marvellous works_ of the Lord, not in _nature_, but...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    MANY, O LORD MY GOD, ARE THY WONDERFUL WORKS WHICH THOU HAST DONE - literally, “Many (things), O Lord my God, hast thou done; thy wonderful things and thy thoughts toward us, it is not (possible) to s...

  • 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

    HAST DONE. didst. THOUGHTS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. IF. WOULD. Fain would I. NUMBERED: or rehearsed....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The blessedness of such a trust....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Abundantly hast Thou wrought, even Thou, O Jehovah my God, Thy marvellous works and Thy thoughts to us-ward: There is none to be compared unto Thee. _Multa fecisti tu Domine Deus meus mirabilia tua...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MANY, &C.— _Many things hast thou done, O Lord, my God: thy wonders and thy thoughts towards us, I am not able to set in order before thee._...

  • 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

    _MANY, O LORD MY GOD, ARE THY WONDERFUL WORKS WHICH THOU HAST DONE, AND THY THOUGHTS WHICH ARE TO US-WARD: THEY CANNOT BE RECKONED UP IN ORDER UNTO THEE: IF I WOULD DECLARE AND SPEAK OF THEM, THEY ARE...

  • 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

    MANY, O LORD. — Better, “In numbers hast Thou made, Thou Jehovah my God, Wonderful deeds and purposes for us. There is nothing comparable to Thee.... Would I declare, would I speak, They are too man...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 40:6]_ רַבֹּ֤ות עָשִׂ֨יתָ ׀ אַתָּ֤ה ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהַי֮...

  • 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

    Many, (e) O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of th...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Thee. Christ prays for his members, acknowledging their sins, (Worthington) which he had undertaken to expiate. The Fathers explain this of his prayer in the garden. (Calmet) --- Have we ever reflect...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a blessed testimony is here found in the Old Testament church concerning the whole New Testament dispensation. By him, that is Christ, all that believe are justified from all things. Acts 13:39....

  • 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

    5._Many are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, O Jehovah! _Interpreters are not entirely agreed as to these words; but it is generally admitted that David here contemplates with admiration the...

  • 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

    MANY, O LORD MY GOD, [ARE] THY WONDERFUL WORKS [WHICH] THOU HAST DONE,.... This is the "new song", as Aben Ezra rightly observes, which is said in Psalms 40:3, to be put in the mouth of the Messiah; w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Many, O LORD my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done, and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: [if] I would declare and speak [of them]...

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

    _Many are thy wonderful works_ For which I and the rest of thy people, included in the plural pronoun _us_, have abundant cause to praise and to trust in thee, as was said Psalms 40:3. And by which it...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    PROPHECY OF CHRIST'S SUFFERING AND PROPHETIC OFFICE. To the chief musician, for performance in liturgical services, a psalm of David, the Messiah Himself speaking through his mouth and pen. Cf Hebrew...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Many, O Lord, My God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, not only those pertaining to the creation, but especially to the redemption of the world, AND THY THOUGHTS, the marvelous plans of H...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    THEY CANNOT BE RECKONED UP IN ORDER UNTO THEE: Or, none can order them unto thee...

  • 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

    THY WONDERFUL WORKS; for which I and the rest of thy people, included in the pronoun plural us, have abundant cause to praise thee, and to trust in thee, as was said, PSALMS 40:3; and by which it will...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 40:5 Many H7227 LORD H3068 God H430 wonderful H6381 (H8737) done H6213 (H8804) thoughts H4284 order...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HE DECLARES THAT THE MAN WHO DOES SO TRUST IN YHWH, AND LIVES ACCORDINGLY, WILL EXPERIENCE GOD'S WONDERFUL WORKING ON HIS BEHALF (PSALMS 40:4). Psalms 40:4 ‘Blessed is the man who makes YHWH his tru...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 40:5 So then there are two series of things which cannot be numbered God's mercies and man's sin. I. If we keep these two things close together in cur contemplations, they suggest for us very...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _Many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee._ GOD’S WONDERFUL WORKS AND THOUGHTS TO US-WAR...

  • 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

    Exodus 11:8; Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 55:8; Isaiah 55:9; Jeremiah 29:11;...

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