Psalms 40:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. ”

• Psalms 40:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 th...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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.

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• Psalms 40:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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....

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• Psalms 40:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  preached . declared as glad tidings. euaggelizo in N.T. congregation . assembly, or convocation.

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• Psalms 40:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 570 CHRIST A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS Psalms 40:9-10 . I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. I have not hid...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. I have preached righteousness - I think it best to refer these words to Christ and his...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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 p...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 o...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a Joyous Testimony Psalms 40:1-10 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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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 ob...

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• Psalms 40:9 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).

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• Psalms 40:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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, b...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Insufficiency of the Legal Sacrifices; The Efficacy of Christ's Sacrifice.       6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desi...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  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-...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Psalms 40:5-12 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 u...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  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...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hebrews 2:12 ; John 21:17 ; Luke 4:16-22 ; Mark 16:15 ; Mark 16:16 ; Psalms 22:22 ; Psalms 22:25 ; Psalms 35:18 ; Psalms 71:15-18 ; Psalms 119:13 ; Psalms 119:171 ; Psalms 119:172 ; Psal...

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• Psalms 40:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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 observ...

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