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Text -- Psalms 40:6-17 (NET)

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40:6 Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings. 40:7 Then I say, “Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me. 40:8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.” 40:9 I have told the great assembly about your justice. Look! I spare no words! O Lord, you know this is true. 40:10 I have not failed to tell about your justice; I spoke about your reliability and deliverance; I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness. 40:11 O Lord, you do not withhold your compassion from me. May your loyal love and faithfulness continually protect me! 40:12 For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me. 40:13 Please be willing, O Lord, to rescue me! O Lord, hurry and help me! 40:14 May those who are trying to snatch away my life be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who want to harm me be turned back and ashamed! 40:15 May those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be humiliated and disgraced! 40:16 May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May the Lord be praised!” 40:17 I am oppressed and needy! May the Lord pay attention to me! You are my helper and my deliverer! O my God, do not delay!
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NET Notes: Psa 40:6 Heb “ears you hollowed out for me.” The meaning of this odd expression is debated (this is the only collocation of “hollowed outR...

NET Notes: Psa 40:7 Heb “in the roll of the scroll it is written concerning me.” Apparently the psalmist refers to the law of God (see v. 8), which contains t...

NET Notes: Psa 40:8 Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thou...

NET Notes: Psa 40:9 Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”

NET Notes: Psa 40:10 Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”

NET Notes: Psa 40:11 In this line the psalmist makes the transition from confidence to petition (see v. 13). Since the prefixed verbal form in the preceding line is imperf...

NET Notes: Psa 40:12 Heb “and my heart abandons me.” The “heart” is here viewed as the seat of emotional strength and courage. For a similar idea s...

NET Notes: Psa 40:13 Heb “hurry to my help.” See Pss 22:19; 38:22.

NET Notes: Psa 40:14 See Ps 35:4 for a similar prayer.

NET Notes: Psa 40:15 Heb “May they be humiliated according to their shame, those who say to me, ‘Aha! Aha!’”

NET Notes: Psa 40:16 The prefixed verbal form is taken as a jussive, “may the Lord be magnified [in praise].” Another option is to take the verb as an imperfec...

NET Notes: Psa 40:17 The prefixed verbal form may be taken as a jussive of prayer (as in the present translation; cf. NIV) or as an imperfect, “The Lord will pay att...

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