Psalm 40 Commentary
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KEY THOUGHT: Sacrifice and offering You did not desire [Psalm 40:6a NKJV]
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Psalm 40 NKJV
Faith Persevering in Trial
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
40 I waited patiently for the Lord;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps.
3 He has put a new song in my mouth—
Praise to our God;
Many will see it and fear,
And will trust in the Lord.
4 Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust,
And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5 Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works
Which You have done;
And Your thoughts toward us
Cannot be recounted to You in order;
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.
6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;
My ears You have opened.
Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
7 Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.
8 I delight to do Your will, O my God,
And Your law is within my heart.”
9 I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness
In the great assembly;
Indeed, I do not restrain my lips,
O Lord, You Yourself know.
10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth
From the great assembly.
11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord;
Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.
12 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;
Therefore my heart fails me.
13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;
O Lord, make haste to help me!
14 Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion
Who seek to destroy my [a]life;
Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor
Who wish me evil.
15 Let them be confounded because of their shame,
Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”
16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
Let such as love Your salvation say continually,
“The Lord be magnified!”
17 But I am poor and needy;
Yet the Lord thinks upon me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
Do not delay, O my God.
Footnotes
a. Psalm 40:14 Lit. soul
New King James Version (NKJV)
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Psalm 40 Commentary
“Many, Lord my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us.” Totally agreed. And this very psalm is one of them! When you read the Book of Hebrews and hear what the Spirit says about this psalm, then you realize our own understanding of much of what we read in the scripture is absolutely nothing!
There is much treasure to be had from these lines.
The first verse turns our heads towards the value of patience in the Christian walk. Prayer plus patience can see you stand on a rock. Great prayer, good and acceptable motivation for it, but without patience, you can as well forget about the wonders the LORD has planned for you.
A spiritually healthy saint is speechless as they behold the wonders of the Creator God. They simply cannot count the many blessings of the LORD in their lives!
Then the LORD opens the eyes of the psalmist to one critically important blessing, or wonder of the LORD – “the things you planned for us.”
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire but my ears you have opened; burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
What is the psalmist saying? The LORD didn’t desire the holiest rituals inscribed by the holiest law?
The New Testament reader knows we are no longer talking about David. The LORD Jesus Christ is the wonder that the LORD kept for us. He came to do God’s will or the things the LORD desires.
Jesus Christ is the master plan of Heaven for humanity.
He is the one option many have yet to try. Once they taste His goodness, they won’t keep quiet. They will proclaim His saving acts in the Assembly. They won’t hide His righteousness. A transformed heart won’t conceal God’s love.
Heaven receives more repentance from the righteous than it does from the wicked! Very strange! Once your eyes are opened, the holiness of the LORD becomes obvious, and you know just how unworthy you are in the LORD’s presence. You then pray:
Do not withhold your mercy from me, Lord; may your love and faithfulness always protect me. For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.
Sinners won’t know the difference. Fools won’t know when their own house is on fire. Probably, that is the difference.
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