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Psalms 40

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1I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. ✦ 2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. ✦ 3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. ✦ 4Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. ✦ 5Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. ✦ 6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. ✦ 7Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, ✦ 8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. ✦ 9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. ✦ 10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. ✦ 11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. ✦ 12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. ✦ 13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. ✦ 14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. ✦ 15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. ✦ 16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. ✦ 17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O 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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