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Psalms 40

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1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. ✦ 2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand. ✦ 3He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh. ✦ 4Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. ✦ 5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted. ✦ 6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. ✦ 7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. ✦ 8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.” ✦ 9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know. ✦ 10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly. ✦ 11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. ✦ 12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me. ✦ 13Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh. ✦ 14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt. ✦ 15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!” ✦ 16Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!” ✦ 17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 119 ·12Ps 69 ·7Ps 35 ·7Ps 71 ·5Ps 22 ·5Ps 34 ·5Ps 70 ·4Ps 116 ·3

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 40 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 40YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 40David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 40Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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