Respecteth not. — Better, turneth not towards proud men and false apostates. The words are, however, somewhat obscure. The LXX. and Vulg. have “vanities and false madnesses.” The words we have rendered false apostates are by some translated “turners after idols.” Idolatry is doubtless implied, but not expressed.
Verse Psalms 40:4. _BLESSED_ IS _THAT MAN_] The man must be blessed and happy who casts his soul, with all its burden of sin and wretchedness, at the footstool of God's mercy; for he will save all who...
BLESSED IS THAT MAN THAT MAKETH THE LORD HIS TRUST - See the notes at Psalms 34:8. Compare Psalms 27:1. Literally, here, “The blessings of the man who places Yahweh for his confidence;” that is, who m...
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...
BLESSED. Happy. See App-63. MAN. strong man. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14....
Happy is the man that hath mada Jehovah his trust, And hath not turned unto the arrogant, and false apostates. The word for _man_is that used in Psalms 34:8, where see note. For the opposite to -mak...
The blessedness of such a trust....
RESPECTETH NOT THE PROUD— _The proud, and those who incline to lies,_ are, on one side, the haughty daring atheists, who laugh at all application to any power above; and on the other, those who put th...
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...
_BLESSED IS THAT MAN THAT MAKETH THE LORD HIS TRUST, AND RESPECTETH NOT THE PROUD, NOR SUCH AS TURN ASIDE TO LIES._ The inference from the gracious deliverance vouchsafed by the Lord to Him (as the S...
40:4 man (f-4) _ Geber_ . see Job 3:3 ....
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 40:5]_ אַ֥שְֽׁרֵי הַ גֶּ֗בֶר אֲשֶׁר ־שָׂ֣ם...
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,...
Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth (d) not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. (d) To follow their example, which he must do who trusts not only in the Lord....
His bed. Literally, "on the bed of his sorrow." His, seems to have been formerly in Hebrew, (Houbigant) though it be now omitted, (Berthier) as it was in the time of Symmachus, "the bed of misery," (S...
What a blessed testimony is here found in the Old Testament church concerning the whole New Testament dispensation. By him, that is Christ, all that believe are justified from all things. Acts 13:39....
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
4._Blessed is the man who hath set Jehovah for his confidence _David here relates what ground for good hope his deliverance would give to all the faithful; inasmuch as, setting aside all the alluremen...
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...
BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT MAKETH THE LORD HIS TRUST,.... For such are safe and secure in him, are possessed of all blessings of grace through him, have peace in their own souls now, and shall enjoy eter...
Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Ver. 4. _Blessed is that man, &c._] See Psalms 2:12 . _ And respecteth not the prou...
_Blessed is the man_, &c. I said, many _shall trust in the Lord_, and they shall not be losers by it, nor disappointed of their hope; but they are and shall be blessed. _And respecteth not_ ולא פנה, _...
Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, who sets Jehovah as his confidence alone, AND RESPECTETH NOT THE PROUD, turning to them for help, NOR SUCH AS TURN ASIDE TO LIES, to the false idols...
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...
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...
HIS TRUST, i.e. his only trust or refuge, as appears from the following words: q.d. I said, many _shall trust in the Lord_; and they shall not be losers by it, nor disappointed of their hope, but they...
Psalms 40:4 Blessed H835 man H1397 makes H7760 (H8804) LORD H3068 trust H4009 respect H6437 (H8804) proud...
HE DECLARES THAT THE MAN WHO DOES SO TRUST IN YHWH, AND LIVES ACCORDINGLY, WILL EXPERIENCE GOD'S WONDERFUL WORKING ON HIS BEHALF (PSALMS 40:4). Psalms 40:4 ‘Blessed is the man who makes YHWH his tru...
TRUST (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 2:12). _...
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...
_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....
_Blessed is the man who maketh the Lord his trust._ THE BLESSEDNESS OF MAKING THE LORD OUR TRUST I. What is implied by our trust. 1. That it rests in the Lord Himself. 2. It sets aside all self-co...
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 ...
2 Thessalonians 2:9; Isaiah 44:18; Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 10:15;...
The proud — Or, the mighty, the great and proud potentates of the world, to whom most men are apt to look and trust. Turn — From God, in whom alone they ought to trust. To lies — To lying vanities, su...