Psalms 40:17

1 Peter 2:23; 1 Peter 5:7; 2 Corinthians 8:9; Hebrews 13:6; Isaiah 41:17; Isaiah 50:7-9; James 2:5; Matthew 8:20; Psalms 54:4; Psalms 143:7; Psalms 143:8; Psalms 34:6; Psalms 40:5; Psalms 69:33; Psalms 70:5; Revelation 22:20

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But I am poor and needy - More literally, “I am afflicted and poor.” The language would describe the condition of one who was afflicted and was a...
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,...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. But I am poor and needy. In this concluding clause he mingles prayer with thanksgiving, although it may be that he records a request whi...
Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 571 CONSOLATION TO THE DISTRESSED Psalms 40:17 . I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me. THAT part of the Holy Scriptur...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. But I am poor - עני ani,...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. But I am poor and need...
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 tha...
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 wheth...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
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 th...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

See, Reader, with what confidence Jesus beholds the travail of his soul. His enemies, and the enemies of his church, must be destroyed. This is in th...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

REFLECTIONS My soul! here look at Jesus with a steady fixed eye, until thou goest forth with all the affections of love, praise, thanksgiving, and e...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 38 Proper Psalm for Ash Wednesday ( Morning ). Psalms 38-40 = Day 8 ( Morning ).
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But I [am] poor and needy ,.... As Christ was literally, 2 Corinthians 8:9 ; and in a spiritual sense, when deserted by his Father, forsaken by his...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God. Ver. 17. But I am poo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I am poor and needy , &c. “The church, like her Redeemer, is often poor and afflicted in this world, but Jehovah thinketh upon her, and is solic...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Encouragement in Prayer. 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Verse 17 . No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Ends Up By Depicting Who Are The Truly Righteous, To Whom He Knows YHWH Will Provide Help, And While Not Seeing Himself As Comparing With Them, N...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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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...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me. God thinks upon His people I. A humble condition. “I am poor and needy.” Now, a man may be...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

But I am poor and needy, in misery on account of the load of human guilt resting upon Him; yet the Lord, the All-powerful, thinketh upon Me, taki...

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 40:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 40:17