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Verse Psalms 40:8. _TO DO THY WILL_] God _willed_ not the sacrifices
under the law, but he _willed_ that a human victim of infinite merit
should be offered for the redemption of mankind. That there mi...
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I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL, O MY GOD - To wit, in obeying the law; in
submitting to all the trials appointed to me; in making an atonement
for the sins of men. See the notes at Hebrews 10:7. Compare
Phi...
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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)
Psalms 40:1. The Fortieth and Forty-first...
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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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DELIGHT. Note the double delight (Isaiah 42:1.Matthew 3:17; Matthew
3:17).
WILL. good pleasure.
WITHIN. in the midst.
HEART. bowels: i.e. my inward parts....
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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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_I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL, O MY GOD: YEA, THY LAW IS WITHIN MY HEART._
I delight to do thy will - (John 4:34; John 6:38; John 17:4.) As the
Son saith, "I delight" to do the Father's will, so the Fath...
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40:8 heart. (k-17) Lit. 'bowels.'...
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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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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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_[Psalms 40:9]_ לַֽ עֲשֹֽׂות ־רְצֹונְךָ֣
אֱלֹהַ֣י חָפָ֑צְתִּי וְ֝ תֹֽורָתְךָ֗
בְּ תֹ֣וךְ מֵעָֽי׃...
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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 i...
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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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_To me, seems useless, though it be added conformably to the Hebrew,
(Berthier) or rather it intimates, that the enemies made no secret of
thier plots. (Haydock)_...
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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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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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I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL, O MY GOD,.... This he came down from heaven
to do, and this he did do, by preaching the Gospel, and working
miracles; and above all by obtaining eternal redemption for his
pe...
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I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
Ver. 8. _I delight to do thy will, O my God_] To Christ it was his
meat and drink, John 4:34, he set his face to do it, and to s...
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_I delight to do thy will_ This also, though in a general sense it may
be true of David, and of all God's people, yet, if it be compared with
the foregoing verse, and with the explication thereof in t...
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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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WITHIN MY HEART:
_ Heb._ in the midst of my bowels...
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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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I DELIGHT TO DO THY WILL. This, though in a general sense it may be
true of David and of all God's people, yet if it be compared with the
foregoing verse, and with the explication thereof in the New
T...
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Psalms 40:8 delight H2654 (H8804) do H6213 (H8800) will H7522 God H430
law H8451 within H8432 heart H4578
I delight - Psalms 112:1, Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:24, Psalms 119:47,...
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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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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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_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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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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2 Corinthians 3:3; Jeremiah 15:16; Jeremiah 31:33; Job 23:12; John
4:34; Proverbs 3:1; Psalms 37:30; Psalms 37:31; Psalms 112:1; Psalms 1
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I delight — This is eminently true, of Christ, and is here observed
as an act of heroic obedience, that he not only resolved to do, but
delighted in doing the will of God, or what God had commanded hi...