George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Psalms 40:8
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)
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)
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 m...
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...
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)...
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...
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....
_I delight_ Cp. Psalms 40:6. What is God's delight is his delight. Contrast the delight of the wicked in evil, Psalms 40:14. _thy will_ Thy good pleasure: what Thou approvest (Proverbs 15:8;...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
40:8 heart. (k-17) Lit. 'bowels.'...
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...
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...
_[Psalms 40:9]_ לַֽ עֲשֹֽׂות ־רְצֹונְךָ֣ אֱלֹהַ֣י חָפָ֑צְתִּי...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
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...
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...
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...
_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...
I delight to do Thy will, O My God, to carry out the pleasure of God's merciful counsel for the salvation of mankind; YEA, THY LAW IS WITHIN MY HEART; because the will of God filled His whole being, t...
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...
WITHIN MY HEART: _ Heb._ in the midst of my bowels...
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...
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...
Psalms 40:8 delight H2654 (H8804) do H6213 (H8800) will H7522 God H430 law H8451 within H8432 heart...
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...
Psalms 40:8 There can be no reasonable doubt whose words these are. Even if the internal evidence were not sufficient, the reference to them in the tenth chapter of Hebrews shows conclusively that the...
Psalms 40:7 It is quite evident that the sense which Christ had in His mission to this world before He came was one of pleasure. And unless you are to believe that every anticipation of Christ could b...
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
_I delight to do Thy will, O my God._ DUTY A DELIGHT “I delight to do Thy will, O my God.” In other words, God’s pleasure is his pleasure. “Yea, Thy law is within my heart,” the object of choice and...
_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....
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:1. This psalm combines thanks for past mercies with a new request for God’s help. ⇐...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:6 Offering sacrifices without faith, repentance, and obedience is useless (see Psalms 50:8; Psalms
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...
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:...
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 ...
2 Corinthians 3:3; Jeremiah 15:16; Jeremiah 31:33; Job 23:12; John 4
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...