Let all those that seek Thee, with hearts filled with faith, rejoice and be glad in Thee, finding comfort in God, their Savior; let such as love Thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified, in a glorious hymn of thanksgiving.
Verse Psalms 40:16. _LET ALL THOSE THAT SEEK THEE - BE GLAD_] In making prayer and supplication to thee, let them ever find thee, that they may magnify thee for the blessings they receive. _LOVE THY...
LET ALL THOSE THAT SEEK THEE - All those who desire to know thee; to understand thy ways; to be thy friends. The phrase is used to denote the truly pious, because it is a characteristic of all such th...
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...
LET. Some codices, with seven early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And let". Compare Psalms 35:27; Psalms 70:4....
The scene is changed. The sky is overclouded. Supplication for speedy help in time of danger takes the place of joyous thanksgiving....
Cp. Psalms 35:27. The discomfiture of the wicked gives occasion for the righteous to rejoice in God, not merely because they are set free from persecution, but because they see in it the proof of God'...
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...
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 40:17]_ יָ֘שִׂ֤ישׂוּ וְ יִשְׂמְח֨וּ ׀ בְּךָ֗ כָּֽל...
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 all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, (n) The LORD be magnified. (n) As the faithful always praise God for his benefits, so the wic...
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_)....
16._Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee. _David here uses another argument — one which he often adduces elsewhere — in order to obtain deliverance; not that it is necessary to all...
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 ALL THOSE THAT SEEK THEE,.... In the first place, with their whole hearts, earnestly and diligently, in Christ, and under the influences of his Spirit, for pardon, righteousness, communion, larger...
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. Ver. 16. _Let all those that seek thee rejoice_] viz. When they hear o...
_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...
SUCH AS LOVE THY SALVATION; either, 1. Such as desire and rejoice in the salvation and deliverance which thou givest to me and to others of thy people, which was a great eye-sore and grief to the wic...
Psalms 40:16 seek H1245 (H8764) rejoice H7797 (H8799) glad H8055 (H8799) love H157 (H8802) salvation...
HE ENDS UP BY DEPICTING WHO ARE THE TRULY RIGHTEOUS, TO WHOM HE KNOWS YHWH WILL PROVIDE HELP, AND WHILE NOT SEEING HIMSELF AS COMPARING WITH THEM, NEVERTHELESS LOOKS TO GOD FOR HIM ALSO TO HELP HIM (P...
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;...
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....
_Let such as love Thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified._ LOVING GOD’S SALVATION All who are saved unto eternal life not only accept God’s salvation from a sense of their absolute and...
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 ...
Acts 19:17; Isaiah 65:13; Isaiah 65:14; Luke 1:46; Luke 1:47;...