Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame, utterly stunned and dazed, that say unto me, Aha, aha! in sneering derision in an attempt to frustrate His work of redemption. The wonderful plans of God for our salvation are revealed in this passage in all their surpassing glory. The enemies cannot hinder the salvation of mankind, and all their attempts to do so result but in their own downfall.
Verse Psalms 40:15. _THAT SAY UNTO ME, AHA, AHA._] האח האח _heach, heach_. See on Psalms 35:21....
LET THEM BE DESOLATE - The word here employed means to be astonished or amazed; then, to be laid waste, or made desolate. As used here, it refers to their purposes, and the wish or prayer is that they...
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...
AHA, AHA. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis._ App-6. Compare Psalms 35:21; Psalms 70:3....
The scene is changed. The sky is overclouded. Supplication for speedy help in time of danger takes the place of joyous thanksgiving....
R.V., Let them be desolate (Lamentations 1:16) by reason of their shame, the defeat of their malicious plans: or, less probably, _let them be astonished_(Leviticus 26:32) _for a reward of their shame_...
LET THEM, &C.— They shall be desolate {_with their own shame for a reward of their turpitude._} Green renders it, after Bishop Hare, _Let those who say, unto me, aha, aha, instantly return back with 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...
_LET THEM BE DESOLATE FOR A REWARD OF THEIR SHAME THAT SAY UNTO ME, AHA, AHA._ Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame ... Let all those that seek thee rejoice ... let such as love thy salva...
40:15 of (b-6) Or 'for a reward of.'...
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 40:16]_ יָ֭שֹׁמּוּ עַל ־עֵ֣קֶב בָּשְׁתָּ֑ם הָ...
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,...
Let them be (m) desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. (m) Let the same shame and confusion come on them, which they intended to have brought on me....
See, Reader, with what confidence Jesus beholds the travail of his soul. His enemies, and the enemies of his church, must be destroyed. This is in the covenant. I will beat down his foes before his fa...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
When the Psalmist prays (verse 15) that his enemies _may be destroyed for a reward of their shame, _the meaning is this: As their sole desire has been to overwhelm me with shame, in order that, while...
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...
LET THEM BE DESOLATE FOR A REWARD OF THEIR SHAME,.... Of their shameful wishes, words, and actions, as they were: their habitations in Jerusalem were desolate, and so was their house or temple there,...
Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. Ver. 15. _Let them be desolate for a reward_] A poor reward; but such as sin payeth to her servants: "the wages of sin is...
_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...
DESOLATE, or _amazed_, or _dismayed_, or _overthrown_: of such imprecations I have spoken before. THEIR SHAME, i.e. their sinful and shameful actions, as _shame_ is put for a shameful idol, HOSEA 9:10...
Psalms 40:15 confounded H8074 (H8799) shame H6118 H1322 say H559 (H8802) Aha H1889 aha H1889 desolat
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...
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...
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;...
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...
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 ...
Luke 19:43; Luke 19:44; Luke 21:23; Luke 21:24; Psalms 35:21;...
Shame — Their sinful and shameful actions....