Psalms 40
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Confidence for salvation
Verse 1
WEB For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
KJV To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
TSK I waited: ps 27:13,14, ps 37:7, jas 5:7-11; inclined: ps 116:2, ps 130:2, da 9:18
Verse 2
WEB He 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.
KJV 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.
TSK brought: ps 18:16,17, ps 71:20, ps 86:13, ps 116:3, ps 142:6,7, ps 143:3, isa 24:22, jon 2:5,6, zec 9:11, ac 2:24,27-31; horrible pit: mt 13:50; the miry: ps 69:2,14,15, jer 38:6-12, la 3:53-55; set: ps 27:5, ps 61:2, mt 7:24,25; established: ps 17:5, ps 18:36, ps 37:23, ps 119:133
Verse 3
WEB He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
KJV 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.
TSK And he: ps 33:3, ps 144:9, re 5:9,10, re 14:3; praise: ps 103:1-5, isa 12:1-4; many: ps 34:1-6, ps 35:27, ps 52:6, ps 64:9,10, ps 142:7, ho 3:5, ac 2:31-41, ac 4:4
Verse 4
WEB Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
KJV Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
TSK Blessed: ps 2:12, ps 34:8, ps 84:11,12, ps 118:8,9, jer 17:7,8, ro 15:12,13; respecteth: ps 15:4, ps 101:3-7, ps 119:21; as turn: ps 125:5, isa 44:18-20, jer 10:14,15, jon 2:8, 2th 2:9-11
Verse 5
WEB Many, 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 numbered.
KJV 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.
TSK Many: ps 136:4, ex 11:8, ex 15:11, job 5:9, job 9:10, job 26:14; thoughts: ps 71:15, ps 92:5, ps 139:6,17,18, isa 55:8,9, jer 29:11; they cannot, etc: job 37:19,20
Christ's work of redemption
Verse 6
WEB Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
KJV Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
TSK Sacrifice: ps 50:8, ps 51:16, 1sa 15:22, isa 1:11, isa 66:3, jer 7:21-23, ho 6:6, mt 9:13, mt 12:7, heb 10:5-12; mine ears: ex 21:6, job 33:16, isa 50:4,5
Verse 7
WEB Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
KJV Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
TSK Lo: heb 10:7-9; in the: ge 3:15, lu 24:27,44, joh 5:39, ac 10:43, 1co 15:3,4, 1pe 1:10,11, re 19:10
Verse 9
WEB I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
KJV I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
TSK preached: ps 22:22,25, ps 35:18, ps 71:15-18, mr 16:15,16, lu 4:16-22, heb 2:12; not: ps 119:13,171,172; thou knowest: ps 139:2, joh 21:17
Verse 10
WEB I 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.
KJV I 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.
TSK not hid: eze 2:7, eze 3:17,18, ac 20:20,21,26,27, ro 10:9,10, 1th 1:8, re 22:17; righteousness: ro 1:16,17, ro 3:22-26, ro 10:3, php 3:9; faithfulness: ac 13:32,33, ro 15:8,9; salvation: isa 49:6, lu 2:30-32, lu 3:6, 1ti 1:15; lovingkindness: ps 25:10, ps 34:6, mic 7:20, joh 1:17, joh 3:16,17
Prayer for mercy and mercy and favour
Verse 11
WEB Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
KJV Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
TSK Withhold: ps 69:13,16; let thy: ps 23:6, ps 43:3, ps 57:3, ps 61:7, ps 85:10, heb 5:7
Verse 12
WEB For 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.
KJV For 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.
TSK innumerable: ps 22:11-19, heb 4:15; mine: ps 38:4, isa 53:6, lu 18:13,14, 1pe 3:18; they are: ps 19:12, ps 69:4; heart: ps 73:26, ge 42:28, lu 21:26
Verse 13
WEB Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
KJV Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
TSK Be: ps 25:17,18, mt 26:36-44; make: ps 38:22, ps 70:1-5
Verse 14
WEB Let 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.
KJV Let 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.
TSK Let them be ashamed: ps 31:17,18, ps 35:4,26, ps 70:2,3, ps 71:13, isa 41:11, isa 45:24; that: mt 21:38-41; driven: ps 9:3, joh 18:6, ac 9:4-6, ac 12:23,24
Verse 15
WEB Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
KJV Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
TSK desolate: ps 69:24,25, ps 70:3, ps 73:19, ps 109:6-20, lu 19:43,44, lu 21:23,24; say: ps 35:21,25, ps 70:3,4
Verse 16
WEB Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”
KJV Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
TSK all: ps 22:26, ps 35:27, ps 68:3, ps 105:3, isa 65:13,14; love: ps 119:81,111,123,166,167, mt 13:45,46, php 3:7-9; say: ps 35:27, lu 1:46,47, ac 19:17
Verse 17
WEB But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
KJV 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.
TSK I am poor: ps 40:5, ps 34:6, ps 69:33, ps 70:5, isa 41:17, mt 8:20, 2co 8:9, jas 2:5; the Lord: 1pe 2:23, 1pe 5:7; help: ps 54:4, isa 50:7-9, heb 13:6; make: ps 143:7,8, re 22:20