Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 40:2
Pit — Desperate dangers and calamities. Rock — A place of strength and safety. Established — Kept me from falling into mischief.
Pit — Desperate dangers and calamities. Rock — A place of strength and safety. Established — Kept me from falling into mischief.
Verse Psalms 40:2. _A HORRIBLE PIT_] Literally, the _sounding pit_; where nothing was heard except the howlings of wild beasts, or the hollow sounds of winds reverberated and broken from the craggy si...
HE BROUGHT ME UP ALSO OUT OF AN HORRIBLE PIT - Margin: “A pit of noise.” The word used here means a pit; a cistern; a prison; a dungeon; a grave. This last signification of the word is found in Psalms...
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...
BROUGHT. hath brought. ROCK. Hebrew. _sela'._ See notes on Psalms 18:1; Psalms 18:2....
The reward of patient waiting upon God....
And brought me up out of a pit of destruction, out of the miry slough: And set my feet upon a rock, made firm my steps. A literal reference to Jeremiah's imprisonment in the dungeon can hardly be in...
DISCOURSE: 569 DAVID’S SUCCESS IN PRAYER AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO US Psalms 40:1. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, o...
OUT OF AN HORRIBLE PIT— As David often compares himself in distress to a sinking and drowning man; so here he compares the affliction from which he had been relieved, to that of a man thrown into some...
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...
_HE BROUGHT ME UP ALSO OUT OF AN HORRIBLE PIT, OUT OF THE MIRY CLAY, AND SET MY FEET UPON A ROCK, AND ESTABLISHED MY GOINGS._ He brought me up also out of an horrible pit - literally, 'from a deep 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...
PIT.. CLAY] The combination of these figures for trouble is illustrated by the dungeon, with mire at the bottom, into which Jeremiah was cast (Jeremiah 38:6). A ROCK] a place of firmness and security....
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...
HORRIBLE PIT. — The rendering of the margin, “pit of noise,” takes _shaôn_ in its primary sense, as in Isaiah 17:12; Psalms 65:7, and the idea of a noise of rushing water suits this passage. Most comm...
_[Psalms 40:3]_ וַ יַּעֲלֵ֤נִי ׀ מִ בֹּ֥ור שָׁאֹון֮...
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,...
He brought me up also out of an (b) horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings. (b) He has delivered me from great dangers....
Understandeth. Believing with eagerness, (Haydock) or reflecting seriously on Jesus Christ, (Berthier) who was pleased to be poor for our sakes. (Haydock) --- And the poor, is not in the ancient Septu...
I cannot but imagine that we sadly overlook the design of God the Holy Ghost in this most sublime Psalm, when we apply any part or portion of it to David king of Israel. That David was an eminent type...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
2._And he drew me out of the roaring pit. _Some translate,_from the pit of desolation, _(80) because the verb שאה, _shaah, _from which the noun שאום, _shaon, _is derived, signifies _to destroy _or _to...
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...
HE BROUGHT ME UP ALSO OUT OF AN HORRIBLE PIT,.... Which, with the following phrase, OUT OF THE MIRY CLAY, expresses the state and condition Christ was in at the time of his bloody sweat, his crucifix...
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, [and] established my goings. Ver. 2. _He brought me up also out of a horrible pit_] _E puteo sonitus,...
_I waited patiently for the Lord_ Hebrew, קוה קויתי, _kavvo kivviti, in waiting I waited_, or, _in hoping I hoped_, which doubling of the word signifies that he waited or hoped diligently and earnestl...
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...
He brought Me up also out of an horrible pit, where He was wasting away with sufferings, OUT OF THE MIRY CLAY, into which He was sinking down, apparently to His destruction, AND SET MY FEET UPON A ROC...
AN HORRIBLE PIT: _ Heb._ a pit of noise...
1-5 Doubts and fears about the eternal state, are a horrible pit and miry clay, and have been so to many a dear child of God. There is power enough in God to help the weakest, and grace enough to hel...
I WAITED PATIENTLY, Heb. _in waiting I waited_; which doubling of the word notes that he waited diligently and earnestly, patiently and perseveringly, until God should please to help him. _He inclined...
Psalms 40:2 up H5927 (H8686) horrible H7588 pit H953 miry H3121 clay H2916 set H6965 (H8686) feet...
DAVID REJOICES IN HIS PAST DELIVERANCE BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THAT IT WILL CAUSE MANY TO TRUST IN YHWH (PSALMS 40:1). Psalms 40:1 ‘I waited in patient waiting for YHWH, And he inclined to me, and hear...
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....
_He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay._ OUT OF THE PIT I. His condition. 1. He was sunk in deep and dark depression. He was what we describe as “down,” brought very low...
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 ...
Acts 2:24; Acts 2:27; Isaiah 24:22; Jeremiah 38:6; Jonah 2:5;...