I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart, namely, that which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe, Romans 3:22; I have declared Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation; I have not concealed Thy loving-kindness and Thy truth from the great congregation. Having thus set forth the everlasting truth of the Gospel, the Messiah returns to the bitter complaint of the days of His suffering.
Verse Psalms 40:10. _THY FAITHFULNESS_] This means the exact fulfilment of the promises made by the prophets relative to the incarnation of Christ, and the opening of the door of faith to the _Gentile...
I HAVE NOT HID THY RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHIN MY HEART - The word “righteousness” here may denote the divine views on the subject of righteousness, or the divine method of making man righteous; that is, the...
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...
HAVE NOT HID. did not hide. SALVATION. or deliverance. HAVE NOT CONCEALED. did not conceal. FROM. in....
Beside the sacrifice of himself, he has not failed to render the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, by the fullest public proclamation of Jehovah's goodness, which he trusts he will still continue...
Neither indolence nor ingratitude nor fear of man has deterred him from openly celebrating those fundamental attributes of the divine character which have been once more manifested in his deliverance....
DISCOURSE: 570 CHRIST A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Psalms 40:9_. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. I have not hid thy rig...
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 HAVE NOT HID THY RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHIN MY HEART; I HAVE DECLARED THY FAITHFULNESS AND THY SALVATION: I HAVE NOT CONCEALED THY LOVINGKINDNESS AND THY TRUTH FROM THE GREAT CONGREGATION._ I have not c...
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...
HAVE NOT HID, etc.] In a good sense God's law is hidden in his heart (Psalms 40:8, cp. Psalms 119:11), but here he means that he has not concealed his convictions from cowardice....
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 40:11]_ צִדְקָתְךָ֬ לֹא ־כִסִּ֨יתִי ׀ בְּ תֹ֬וךְ...
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,...
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy (i) faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. (i) David...
Bread. This characterizes the traitor, who had recieved the holy Communion, and had been intrusted with the purse by our Saviour, yet betrayed him with the sign of peace. (Calmet) --- To violate the l...
Reader! do observe two grand things here mentioned. First, Christ is the Preacher of his own gospel. Having performed the office of a priest, he is also the prophet of his church. And secondly, do obs...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
10_I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart. _Here it is necessary to observe the accumulation of terms which are employed to denote the same thing. To the righteousness of God the Psalmist...
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 HAVE NOT NOT HID THY RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHIN MY HEART,.... Meaning not the essential righteousness of God, though that was abundantly declared in the wounds, sufferings, and death of Christ; and which...
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. Ver. 10. _I ha...
_I have preached righteousness_ Namely, _thy righteousness_, as it is expressed in the next verse; that is, thy faithfulness, as it is there explained; or, righteousness properly so called; for both w...
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 HAVE NOT HID THY RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHIN MY HEART; I had it there, PSALMS 40:8, but I did not smother or shut it up there, but spread it abroad for thy glory, and the good of the world; which thou hast...
Psalms 40:10 hidden H3680 (H8765) righteousness H6666 within H8432 heart H3820 declared H559 (H8804) faithfulness H530
HE DECLARES TO GOD THAT HE HAS BEEN FAITHFUL IN HIS TESTIMONY TOWARDS HIS FELLOW BELIEVERS ABOUT GOD'S GOODNESS AND FAITHFULNESS, WHICH IS OF COURSE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF HIS OBEDIENCE (PSALMS 40:9)....
Psalms 40:9 I. The Psalmist speaks here rather of the mind with which the Son of God should come than of the end for which He should come. He speaks of that obedience, which healed our disobedience,...
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...
Psalms 40:10 The necessary openness of a holy experience. I. Notice the evident fact that a true inward experience, or discovery of God in the heart, is itself an impulse also of self-manifestation,...
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 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....
_I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, Thou knowest._ CHRISTIAN CONVERSATION There is a recluse and sequestered piety in the world which s...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 40:1. This psalm combines thanks for past mercies with a new request for God’s help. ⇐...
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 ...
1 Thessalonians 1:8; 1 Timothy 1:15; Acts 13:32; Acts 13:33; Acts 20