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Verse Psalms 40:6. _SACRIFICE AND OFFERING_] The apostle, Hebrews
10:5, c., quoting this and the two following verses, says, _When he_
(the Messiah) _cometh into the world_-was about to be incarnated...
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SACRIFICE AND OFFERING - The first of the words used here - זבח
_zebach_ - means properly a bloody-offering; the other - מנחה
_minchāh_ - an offering without blood, as a thank-offering. See the
notes...
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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)...
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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...
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SACRIFICE. Hebrew. _zabach._ App-43. Quoted in Hebrews 10:5.
OFFERING. Hebrew. _minchah._ App-43. Compare Hebrews 10:5. Note the
four great offerings here, and separately: Psalms 40:6. any sacrifice;...
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The various kinds of offerings are described according to their
material, as _sacrifice_of slain animals, and
_offering_(-meal-offering") of the fruits of the earth (Leviticus 2:1
ff.); and according...
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True service consists not in material sacrifices but in obedience to
the will of God. The stanza is an answer to the implied question, How
should man express his gratitude? It affirms the common proph...
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SACRIFICE AND OFFERING, &C.— These three verses, as they may
possibly relate to David, who was a a type of Christ, may be thus
considered.—_Sacrifice,_ &c. The Psalmist here enumerates the
principal s...
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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...
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_SACRIFICE AND OFFERING THOU DIDST NOT DESIRE; MINE EARS HAST THOU
OPENED: BURNT OFFERING AND SIN OFFERING HAST THOU NOT REQUIRED._
The second half of the first part, Psalms 40:6. The petitioner
test...
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40:6 Sacrifice (g-1) See Exodus 23:18 and Leviticus 1:3 , Note b.
prepared (h-11) Lit. 'digged' or 'hollowed out.'...
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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...
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SACRIFICE AND OFFERING, etc.] a striking recognition that spiritual
service, even in OT. times, is more than all forms of worship: see 1
Samuel 15:22. MINE EARS HAST THOU OPENED] to understand the tru...
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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...
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MINE EARS HAST THOU OPENED. — Literally, _Ears hast thou dug for
me,_ which can hardly mean anything but “Thou hast given me the
sense of hearing.” The words are an echo of 1 Samuel 15:22. The
attenti...
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_[Psalms 40:7]_ זֶ֤בַח וּ מִנְחָ֨ה ׀ לֹֽא
־חָפַ֗צְתָּ...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; (f) mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
(f) You have opened my ears to understand the spiritual meaning o...
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_Perish? When shall we have a change, and see Absalom ont he throne?
When shall we get rid of this man, who reproves our conduct? So were
the Jews animated to destroy Christ. (Theodoret) --- The rest...
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The Holy Ghost would not suffer the church to make her own comment
upon this most momentous passage; but by his servant the apostle Paul
(Hebrews 10:5.) hath very fully done it himself; and plainly an...
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Psalms 38
_ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_).
PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
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6_In sacrifice and oblation thou hast not taken pleasure. _Here David
offers not only the sacrifice of praise, or, as the prophet Hosea
calls it, (Hosea 14:2,) “the calves of the lips,” but, in token...
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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...
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SACRIFICE AND OFFERING THOU DIDST NOT DESIRE,.... These were desired,
willed, and appointed by God, and that very early, even from the times
of our first parents; and, when performed aright, were acce...
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Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou
opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Ver. 6. _Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire_] Comparatively...
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_Sacrifice_, &c. These and the four following verses may, in an
improper sense, belong to the person and time of David; when God might
be said, _not to desire_, or _require_, legal sacrifices,
compara...
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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...
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Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire, God does not ask for,
and takes no pleasure in, mere outward offerings, in a mechanical form
of worship, whether such sacrifices are in the form of thank...
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OPENED:
_ Heb._ digged...
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6-10 The psalmist foretells that work of wonder, redemption by our
Lord Jesus Christ. The Substance must come, which is Christ, who must
bring that glory to God, and that grace to man, which it was
i...
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These words may in an improper sense belong to the person and time of
David; when God might be said not to _desire or require_ legal
sacrifices comparatively, as negative expressions are frequently
un...
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HE RECOGNISES THAT IN ORDER FOR A MAN TO EXPRESS HIS GRATITUDE TO GOD
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES ARE NOT ENOUGH, AND THAT WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF
HIM IS TOTAL OBEDIENCE TO HIS WILL, SOMETHING TO WHICH HE GLAD...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; mine ears hast Thou
opened: burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required._
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of...
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_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....
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:1. This psalm combines thanks for past
mercies with a new request for God’s help.
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:6 Offering sacrifices without faith,
repentance, and obedience is useless (see Psalms 50:8; Psalms
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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...
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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:...
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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 ...
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1 Samuel 15:22; Exodus 21:6; Hebrews 10:5; Hosea 6:6; Isaiah 1:11;...
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Sacrifice — These and the following words, may in an improper sense
belong to the time of David; when God might be said, not to desire or
require legal sacrifices comparatively. Thou didst desire obed...