Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 40:3
And fear — Shall stand in awe of that God, whom they see to have so great power, either to save or to destroy.
And fear — Shall stand in awe of that God, whom they see to have so great power, either to save or to destroy.
Verse Psalms 40:3. _A NEW SONG_] Cheerfulness and joy had long been strangers to him. He seemed to live to utter the most doleful complaints, and be a prey to suffering and wretchedness. _Praise_ for...
AND HE HATH PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH - See the notes at Psalms 33:3. The idea is, that he had given a new or fresh “occasion” for praise. The deliverance was so marked, and was such an addition to f...
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...
A NEW SONG. See note on Psalms 33:3. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4. I SEE... AND FEAR. Figure of speech _Paronomasia._ App-6. Hebrew. _yir'u_... v"yira'u. peer and fear. TRUST. confide Hebrew. _bata...
The reward of patient waiting upon God....
Such deliverance is a fresh theme of praise. Cp. Psalms 33:3. The plural pronoun, - _our God_," implies that others were interested in the Psalmist and his fortunes. _many shall see_it] Omit _it_, whi...
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...
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...
_AND HE HATH PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH, EVEN PRAISE UNTO OUR GOD: MANY SHALL SEE IT, AND FEAR, AND SHALL TRUST IN THE LORD._ And he hath put a new song in my mouth - literally, 'He hath given a new...
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...
A NEW SONG] a song of praise for new mercies: see on Psalms 33:3....
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...
NEW SONG. — See Psalms 33:3. It seems natural to suppose that this new song is incorporated here; that we have at least the substance of it, if not the words. Possibly the very words are taken up in P...
_[Psalms 40:4]_ וַ יִּתֵּ֬ן בְּ פִ֨י ׀ שִׁ֥יר...
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,...
And he hath put (c) a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. (c) That is, a special opportunity to praise him, for God's benefit...
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...
Was not this the case both with Christ and his church, when Jehovah raised the body of Christ from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and p...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
3._And he hath put into my mouth a new song _In the first clause of the verse he concludes the description of what God had done for him. By God’s putting _a new song into his mouth _he denotes the con...
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...
AND HE HATH PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH, [EVEN] PRAISE TO OUR GOD,.... Sung by him in the midst of the great congregation of angels and saints, upon his resurrection, ascension, and session at the righ...
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God: many shall see [it], and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. Ver. 3. _And he hath put a new song in my mouth_] _i.e._ New matter, wh...
_He hath put a new song into my mouth_ Both by giving me new matter for a song, and by inspiring me with the very words of it. _Many shall see it_ Shall observe God's wonderful mercies vouchsafed to m...
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...
And He hath put a new song in My mouth, a special psalm of thanksgiving intended particularly for this occasion, EVEN PRAISE UNTO OUR GOD, for this wonderful exhibition of His mercy; MANY SHALL SEE IT...
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...
HE HATH PUT A NEW SONG IN MY MOUTH; partly by giving me new matter or occasion for a song; and partly by inspiring me with the very words of it. SHALL SEE IT, i.e. shall observe God's wonderful mercie...
Psalms 40:3 put H5414 (H8799) new H2319 song H7892 Praise H8416 God H430 Many H7227 see H7200 ...
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...
FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...
Psalms 40:3 I. Consider the "new songs" already put into the mouths of Christians. (1) Coming to Christ and conversion to God are materials for a "new song." (2) Few leave the Lord's Table after their...
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...
_And He hath put a new song in my mouth._ THE NEW SONG ON EARTH I. We have here A man wondering to find himself singing. God had put a new song into his mouth, and it was a marvel even to himself. Wh...
_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. ⇐...
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 2:31; Acts 4:4; Hosea 3:5; Isaiah 12:1; Psalms 142:7;...