Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 40:13
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me, haste being necessary because He was in such depths of oppression.
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me, haste being necessary because He was in such depths of oppression.
BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME - That is, in these troubles and sorrows. See Matthew 26:39. The prayer is that, if possible, the cup of sorrow might be taken away. O LORD, MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME - T...
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...
The scene is changed. The sky is overclouded. Supplication for speedy help in time of danger takes the place of joyous thanksgiving....
Psalms 40:13 recur as Psalms 70, with some verbal variations. _Be pleased_ An echo of -thy good pleasure" (-thy will") in Psalms 40:8. The word is omitted in Psalms 70
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...
_BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME: O LORD, MAKE HASTE TO HELP ME._ Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me ... Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul ......
40:13 (a-0) With vers. 13-17 compare Psalms 70 ....
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...
BE PLEASED. — From this verse onwards, with some trifling variations which will be noticed under that psalm, this passage occurs as Psalms 70, where see Notes....
_[Psalms 40:14]_ רְצֵ֣ה יְ֭הוָה לְ הַצִּילֵ֑נִי יְ֝הוָ֗ה...
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 CRY FOR DELIVERANCE Psalms 40:11 To the end of life we shall continually need God's _lovingkindness,_ to deal mercifully with our failures and sins, and His _truth,_ that is, His faithfulness. The...
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,...
_Innocence. Jesus was the spotless lamb incapable of sin. He effaced it by his blood, and is therefore crowned with glory, Hebrews ii. 9., and Philippians ii. 9. (Calmet) --- This innocence made him a...
Some have thought that these are the words of David king of Israel, speaking in his own person, and seeking for mercy in Christ. But certainly there is no authority for the supposition. No one can thi...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
13._Be thou pleased, O Jehovah! to deliver me. _The verb which David here makes use of, signifies to desire a thing from pure kindness and good-will. (96) He desires, therefore, to be delivered by the...
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...
BE PLEASED, O LORD, TO DELIVER ME,.... From the innumerable evils which compassed him about; from sinful men, and from devils, signified by the sword, dog, and lion, Psalms 22:20; and from the power a...
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. Ver. 13. _Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me_] Do it of thy free grace, and mere mercy of thy good will and gracious liking (as the wo...
_Be pleased to deliver me_ From my sins, and the punishment due to them. _Let them be ashamed_ For the disappointment of their hopes and designs. _That seek after my soul_ That is, my life. _Let them...
11-17 The best saints see themselves undone, unless continually preserved by the grace of God. But see the frightful view the psalmist had of sin. This made the discovery of a Redeemer so welcome. In...
DELIVER ME FROM MY SINS, and the punishments due to them....
Psalms 40:13 pleased H7521 (H8798) LORD H3068 deliver H5337 (H8687) LORD H3068 haste H2363 (H8798) help...
HAVING ESTABLISHED HIS GRATITUDE AND LOYALTY AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF HIS TESTIMONY WITH REGARD TO GOD, HE NOW SEEKS GOD'S AID IN HELPING HIM WITH REGARD TO HIS OWN SINFULNESS AND PRAYS ALSO FOR ASSIST...
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...
_Innumerable evils have compassed me about._ OUT OF THE DEPTHS I. A soul beset. 1. He is made to see the countless number of his sins. It is wonderful what a ray of light will do; the sun suddenly s...
_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 40:11 Verse Psalms 40:11 alludes to Exodus 34:6. Previous experiences provide assurance that, i
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 ...
Matthew 26:36; Psalms 25:17; Psalms 25:18; Psalms 38:22; Psalms 70: