I have preached. — Literally, I have made countenances glad.
Notice the rapid succession of clauses, like successive wave-beats of praise, better than any elaborate description to represent the feelings of one whose life was a thanksgiving.
Verse Psalms 40:9. _I HAVE PREACHED RIGHTEOUSNESS_] I think it best to refer these words to Christ and his apostles. In consequence of his having become a sacrifice for sin, the Jewish sacrificial sy...
I HAVE PREACHED RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE GREAT CONGREGATION - I have main tained and defended the principles of righteousness and truth among assembled multitudes. it would be difficult to see how this co...
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...
PREACHED. declared as glad tidings. _euaggelizo_ in N.T. CONGREGATION. assembly, or convocation....
Beside the sacrifice of himself, he has not failed to render the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, by the fullest public proclamation of Jehovah's goodness, which he trusts he will still continue...
_I have preached righteousness_ R.V. I have published: better, as R.V. marg., I have proclaimed glad tidings of, εὐηγγελισάμην δικαιοσύνην (LXX). His theme was -righteousness;" all the facts which are...
DISCOURSE: 570 CHRIST A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Psalms 40:9_. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. I have not hid thy rig...
I HAVE PREACHED RIGHTEOUSNESS— The person speaking here declares that he has done what God required. If we understand it of David, the benefits and mercies which God had vouchsafed to him and his peop...
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...
_I HAVE PREACHED RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE GREAT CONGREGATION: LO, I HAVE NOT REFRAINED MY LIPS, O LORD, THOU KNOWEST._ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation. From the fulfilling of God'...
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...
IN THE GREAT CONGREGATION] among the people assembled at some festival....
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 40:10]_ בִּשַּׂ֤רְתִּי צֶ֨דֶק ׀ בְּ קָ֘הָ֤ל רָ֗ב...
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,...
I have preached righteousness in the (h) great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. (h) In the Church assembled in the sanctuary....
Word of affecting the regal power, &c. (St. Ambrose) --- No more? Jesus Christ speaks. They have unjustly condemned me: But can I not rise again? or the words may be put in the mouth of his enemies. S...
Reader! do observe two grand things here mentioned. First, Christ is the Preacher of his own gospel. Having performed the office of a priest, he is also the prophet of his church. And secondly, do obs...
Psalms 38 _ Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday_ (_Morning_). PSALMS 38-40 = _ Day 8_ (_Morning_)....
9._I have proclaimed thy righteousness in the great assembly. _Here David again brings forward his own thankfulness, and for no other reason but to induce God to continue his goodness towards him. God...
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...
I HAVE PREACHED RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE GREAT CONGREGATION,.... Not the righteousness which the law requires men to do; but the righteousness which Christ himself wrought out, for the justification of th...
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. Ver. 9. _I have preached righteousness in the great congregation_] David did this, but...
_I have preached righteousness_ Namely, _thy righteousness_, as it is expressed in the next verse; that is, thy faithfulness, as it is there explained; or, righteousness properly so called; for both w...
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation, declaring and proclaiming it through the mouth of His servants. LO, I HAVE NOT REFRAINED MY LIPS, O LORD, THOU KNOWEST, He had not closed them...
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...
6-10 The psalmist foretells that work of wonder, redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ. The Substance must come, which is Christ, who must bring that glory to God, and that grace to man, which it was i...
RIGHTEOUSNESS, to wit, _thy righteousness_, as it is expressed in the next verse, i.e. thy faithfulness, as it is there explained; or righteousness properly so called; for both were fully declared and...
Psalms 40:9 proclaimed H1319 (H8765) righteousness H6664 great H7227 assembly H6951 restrain H3607 (H8799) lips H8193
HE DECLARES TO GOD THAT HE HAS BEEN FAITHFUL IN HIS TESTIMONY TOWARDS HIS FELLOW BELIEVERS ABOUT GOD'S GOODNESS AND FAITHFULNESS, WHICH IS OF COURSE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF HIS OBEDIENCE (PSALMS 40:9)....
Psalms 40:9 I. The Psalmist speaks here rather of the mind with which the Son of God should come than of the end for which He should come. He speaks of that obedience, which healed our disobedience,...
Psalms 40:5 So then there are two series of things which cannot be numbered God's mercies and man's sin. I. If we keep these two things close together in cur contemplations, they suggest for us very...
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....
_I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, Thou knowest._ CHRISTIAN CONVERSATION There is a recluse and sequestered piety in the world which s...
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 ...
Hebrews 2:12; John 21:17; Luke 4:16; Mark 16:15; Mark 16:16;...
Righteousness — Thy faithfulness. Great congregation — In the most public and solemn assemblies: not only to the Jews, but also to all nations; to whom Christ preached by his apostles, as is observed...