“ Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. ”
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me - That is, in these troubles and sorrows. See Matthew 26:39 . The prayer is that, if possible, the cup of sorrow might be taken away. O Lord, make haste to h...
XL. A. Psalms 40:1-11 . 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....
13. Be thou pleased, O Jehovah! to deliver me. The verb which David here makes use of, signifies to desire a thing from pure kindness and good-will. (96) He desires, therefore, to be delive...
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me ... Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul ...
This Ps. falls into two well-marked divisions, which many think to have been originally separate Pss. In Psalms 40:1-11 the writer recalls with thankfulness how God has heard his prayers and delive...
Be pleased. — From this verse onwards, with some trifling variations which will be noticed under that psalm, this passage occurs as Psalms 70 , where see Notes.
Psalms 40:1-17 THE closing verses of this psalm reappear with slight changes as an independent whole in Psalms 70:1-5 . The question arises whether that is a fragment or this a conglomerate. Mode...
a Cry for Deliverance Psalms 40:11-17 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 faithfuln...
Again we find in this psalm the perfect structure found in Psalms 27:1-14 . Praise prepares for prayer. The experience has mounted higher than in the preceding song (39). The singer still suffers di...
Some have thought that these are the words of David king of Israel, speaking in his own person, and seeking for mercy in Christ. But certainly there is no authority for the supposition. No one can th...
Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me ,.... From the innumerable evils which compassed him about; from sinful men, and from devils, signified by the sword, dog, and lion, Psalms 22:20 ; and from the po...
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. Ver. 13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me ] Do it of thy free grace, and mere mercy of thy good will and gracious liking (as the...
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...
Encouragement in Prayer. 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O L ORD : let thy lovingkindness and thy trut...
Deliver me from my sins, and the punishments due to them.
Having Established His Gratitude And Loyalty And The Faithfulness Of His Testimony With Regard to God, He Now Seeks God's Aid In Helping Him With Regard To His Own Sinfulness And Prays Also For Assi...
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 o...
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 an...
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...
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 P...
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 He...
Matthew 26:36-44 ; Psalms 25:17 ; Psalms 25:18 ; Psalms 38:22 ; Psalms 70:1-5