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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 35 ·7Ps 69 ·7Ps 34 ·5Ps 22 ·5Ps 71 ·5Ps 70 ·4Acts 2 ·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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