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Psalms 40:2

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

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.

Psalms 40:2 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 40:2

Theological / Devotional

Horrible pit. Literally, “pit of noise.” The psalmist probably had in mind a dark, deep cavern, in which the waters roar, filling it with horrible sounds, and from which there is no hope of deliverance. God’s arm was long enough to reach down and deliver him.

Miry clay. Or, “mud.” The bottom of the pit is not solid ground on which the psalmist, in his desolation, might stand, but slimy mud (see Ps. 69:2, 14, 15). Every attempt to extricate himself from the mire probably drove him only deeper.

Upon a rock. In contrast to miry clay. The psalmist has firm footing on solid ground (see Ps. 27:5), so that he walks securely (see Ps. 37:23).

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