Psalms 40

Treated in 15 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 4
  • 40:1 I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 3
  • 40:3 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 Jehovah. 3
  • 40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart. 3
  • 40:12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath failed me. 3
  • 40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. 1
  • 40:7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me: 1
  • 40:10 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 assembly. 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The necessity of mortification: the duty of the best believers cites Ps. xl. 12

    …nd makes a man weak, sick, and ready to die, Ps. xxxviii. 3–5, so that he cannot look up, Ps. xl. 12, Isa. xxxiii. 24; and when poor creatures will take blow after blow, wound after wound, f…

  2. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The usefulness of mortification to the vigour of our spiritual lives cites Ps. xl. 12

    …. xxxviii. 3; “I am feeble and sore broken,” verse 8; “yea, I cannot so much as look up,” Ps. xl. 12. An unmortified lust will drink up the spirit, and all the vigour of the soul, and weaken…

  3. The Mortification of Sin in Believers · John Owen

    The mortification of sin in particular described cites Ps. xl. 12

    …. David complains that his sin had “taken fast hold upon him, that he could not look up,” Ps. xl. 12. How little, then, was he able to fight against it! Now, sundry things are required unto …

  4. Talks to the Farmer · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Spiritual Gleaning cites Psalm 40:8

    …He gives such joy in serving him that they can say, "We delight to do your will, O Lord" (Psalm 40:8). Heaven is serving God day and night, and we get a taste of that by serving him earnestl…

  5. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Interior and Exterior Actions cites Ps. xl. 1

    …urn, as David did: “I waited patiently for the Lord,” he says, “and He inclined unto me” (Ps. xl. 1).

  6. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The First Stage cites Psalm 40:2

    …n. Help: Then, said he, Give me thine hand: so he gave him his hand, and he drew him out, Psalm 40:2, and he set him upon sound ground, and bid him go on his way. Then I stepped to him that …

  7. Till He Come · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Psalm xl. 7

    …ome: in the volume of the book it is written of Me, I delight to do Thy will, O my God.” (Psalm xl. 7, 8.) When He came into the world to sacrifice His life for us, it was a freewill offering…

  8. Godliness · Catherine Booth

    Love and Loneliness cites Psalm 40:10

    …ave not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.” Psalm 40:10 When people truly receive this love, they naturally want to share it. It overflows. It ca…

  9. The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life · Hannah Whitall Smith

    The Joy of Obedience cites Psalms 40:8

    …meant when He said, “ I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”( Psalms 40:8 ) And do you think the joy in this will be all on your side? Has the Lord no joy in those…

  10. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Things That Cannot Be Shaken cites Psalm 40:2

    …de who brings us out of the mud and "set[s] my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure" (Psalm 40:2), even though the paths he calls us to walk may seem narrow and hard. The prophet Jeremia…

  11. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Psa 40: 3

    …cies have been ever of old.’ Psa 25: 6. New mercies: ‘He has put a new song in my mouth.’ Psa 40: 3. Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy. God has mercies under heaven, and those …

  12. The Way Into the Holiest · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    An Ancient Hebrew Custom cites Psalm xl. 6

    … he shall serve him forever" (Exod. xxi. 6). This custom was- ALLUDED TO BY THE PSALMIST (Psalm xl. 6). Living amid the routine of daily, monthly, and yearly sacrifices, this saint felt deepl…

  13. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    January cites Ps 40:8

    …4:34 cp Jn 17:4); “I seek not My own will, but the will of Him that sent Me” (cp Jn 6:38, Ps 40:8); “Nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou wilt.” (Mt 26:39, Lk 22:42) But in the Fall, …

  14. Waiting on God · Andrew Murray

    Introduction cites Ps. 40:1-3

    …37:34. . . 63 13. For More than we Know.—Ps. 39:7, 8. . . 67 14. The Way to the New Song.—Ps. 40:1-3. . . 71 15. For His Counsel.—Ps. 106:13. . . 75 16. And His Light in the Heart.—Ps. 130:5…

  15. Waiting on God · Andrew Murray

    The Way to the New Song cites Ps. 40: 1-3

    …nd heard my cry. . . . And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God.'—Ps. 40: 1-3. COME and listen to the testimony of one who can speak from experience of the sure and bl…