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Psalms 40:13-17

King James Version (KJV)

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13. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. 14. 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. 15. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. 16. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. 17. 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.

Psalms 40:13-17 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 40:13

Theological / Devotional

Be pleased. With vs. 13–17 compare Ps. 70 (see comments there). The expression “be pleased” is from the Heb. rasah, the root of the word translated “will” (literally, “that which is pleasing”) in v. 8.

Make haste. See Ps. 22:19 ; 38:22.

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