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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 40 To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David. Jarchi interprets this psalm of the Israelites, and of their deliverance and song at the Red sea. The title of it, in the Syriac version, is, "A psalm of David according to the letter, when Shemaiah brought the names of those who minister in the house of the Lord;'' see 1...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I waited patiently for the Lord,.... Or "waiting I waited" (i); which denotes continuance, constancy, and patience; and which Christ exercised in the garden, when he submitted himself entirely to the will of God; and on the cross, when he continued in sure hope and firm expectation of his help and assistance, though he was for a while forsaken by...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
It should seem David penned this psalm upon occasion of his deliverance, by the power and goodness of God, from some great and pressing trouble, by which he was in danger of being overwhelmed; probably it was some trouble of mind arising from a sense of sin and of God's displeasure against him for it; whatever it was, the same Spirit that indited...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. You and I can say that, so could our Divine Master. Oh the wondrous patience of the Lord Jesus Christ in prayer! In that agony in the garden when the bloody sweat showed how great were the wrestlings of his spirit he could then say, “I waited patiently for Jehovah, and he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He 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. God does nothing by halves; if he brings people up out of their sorrow, or their sin, he takes care that their feet shall not slip back again into...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. “I waited.” Do not beggars wait long at a fellow-creature’s door for some pitiful alms, and should not I be content to linger at Mercy’s gate for such great boons as I am craving? “I waited patiently.” Well may we tarry in patience till Jehovah’s time to help, since we...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. I waited patiently for the Lord. Patient waiting upon God was a special characteristic of our Lord Jesus. Impatience never lingered in his heart, much less escaped his lips. All through his agony in the garden, his trial of cruel mockings before Herod and Pilate, and his passion on the tree, he waited in omnipotence of patience. No glance...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit,.... Which, with the following phrase, out of the miry clay, expresses the state and condition Christ was in at the time of his bloody sweat, his crucifixion, and his lying in "sheol", the pit or grave, sometimes rendered hell, which these figurative phrases fitly signify; when it is observed, that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He 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. We can say that too. We remember when we were deep down in the mire, when we found it impossible to rise, for the more we struggled the more we sank. It was clay under us, miry clay. We could not hope for a rescue, but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He 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. This is a wonderful song, full of rapturous joy. You know how Orientals were accustomed to cast their prisoners into pits, and those pits were often horribly deep, and dark, and damp; and the mud at the bottom would be such...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise to our God,.... Sung by him in the midst of the great congregation of angels and saints, upon his resurrection, ascension, and session at the right hand of God; see Psalms 22:22; when he went to his God and ours, to his Father and ours; and in which song he is joined by all his people above and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And 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. Well, God has done that for you and for me; he has put a new song into our mouth which Satan cannot take out of it, and we are singing it today, and others who hear it shall be encouraged to trust in God. But is this true of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, — Such a song as I never sang before; for I had never been in such trouble before, and therefore had never experienced such a deliverance as the Lord has now granted to me. “He hath put a new song in my mouth.” With that sweet songstress, Ann Letitia Waring, I can say, — “My heart is resting, O my God; I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD. Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. You know that this Book of Psalms has many benedictions in it. It begins with a blessing upon “the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Sing, then, believer! Thou didst groan often enough in the pit; sing now that thou art on the rock. Thou wast desolate enough in the dungeon; sound aloud thy grateful thanksgivings now that thy goings are established. Psa_40:3. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust,.... For such are safe and secure in him, are possessed of all blessings of grace through him, have peace in their own souls now, and shall enjoy eternal happiness with him hereafter; and respecteth not the proud; such as the Pharisees, and all self-righteous persons, who trust in themselves and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Jesus knew the blessedness of faith. Remember how Paul quotes it, “I will put my trust in him,” as the language of the Redeemer himself. As man he had his fears; as man there was wrought in him a wondrous faith in God. Oh that you and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. If you trust in God, you will have no reverence for the proud, nor for those who turn aside from God’s Word, and teach falsehood. If you really fear God, you will have no fear of men.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Many, O Lord my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done,.... This is the "new song", as Aben Ezra rightly observes, which is said in Psalms 40:3, to be put in the mouth of the Messiah; who sometimes speaks in the plural number, being the representative of his people, and sometimes in the singular; for it is the same person that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Many 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. We are not dealing with a God who never deals with us. Faith in God is no fiction. We have already had from God the most...