Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
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Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
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Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
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(40-14) Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me.
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Passages linked to Psalms 40:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 25:17-18 The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.
- Psalms 38:22 Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
- Psalms 70:1-5 Hurry, God, to deliver me. Come quickly to help me, Yahweh. Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace. Let them be turned because of their shame who say, “Aha! Aha!” Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!” But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
- Psalms 22:19 But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help. Hurry to help me!
- Psalms 71:12 God, don’t be far from me. My God, hurry to help me.
- Matthew 26:36-44 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I go there and pray.” He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled. Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.” He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.” He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour? Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.” He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 13. Be thou pleased, O Jehovah! to deliver me.…
13. Be thou pleased, O Jehovah! to deliver me. The verb which David here makes use of, signifies to desire a thing from pure kindness and good-will. He desires, therefore, to be delivered by the free mercy of God. As to his desire, that God would make haste, we have elsewhere spoken of it. Even when God delays to help us, it is our duty to contend against a feeling of weariness; but such is his goodness, that he permits us to use this form of prayer, That he would make haste according to our desires. Then, according to his usual practice, citing his enemies to the judgment-seat of God, he feels confident, that, on account of their cruelty, and unjust and wicked hatred, he shall obtain what he asks. We must maintain it as a fixed principle, that the more unjustly our enemies afflict us, and the more cruelly they wrong us, God is so much the more disposed to give us help. And it is no slight consolation that the mercy of God strives against their wickedness, so that the more fiercely our enemies pursue us to effect our hurt, the more ready is he to bring us help. We have already frequently spoken of the feelings with which David uttered these imprecations, and it is necessary here again to refresh our memories on the subject, lest any man, when giving loose reins to his passions, should allege the example of David in palliation or excuse. This wicked and counterfeit imitation on the part of those who follow the powerful impulse of the flesh, instead of being guided by the zeal of the Spirit, is always to be held up to condemnation.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me:…
Psa 40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Ver. 13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me] Do it of thy free grace, and mere mercy of thy good will and gracious liking (as the word ευδοκια signifieth), beside the consideration of my woeful misery laid forth, Psa 40:12, as an object of thy mercy.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Deliver me from my sins, and the punishments due…
Deliver me from my sins, and the punishments due to them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me,.... From the…
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me,.... From the innumerable evils which compassed him about; from sinful men, and from devils, signified by the sword, dog, and lion, Psa 22:20; and from the power and dominion of death and the grave; all which was done when he was raised from the dead, and as the fruit and effect of God's well pleasedness in him, and with what he did and suffered; see Psa 22:8;
O Lord, make haste to help me; See Gill on Psa 22:19.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 40:13-16. Be pleased to deliver me — From…
Psa 40:13-16. Be pleased to deliver me — From my sins, and the punishment due to them. Let them be ashamed — For the disappointment of their hopes and designs. That seek after my soul — That is, my life. Let them be desolate — Or, They shall be desolate, or dismayed, or overthrown, as ישׁמו, jashommu, also signifies. For a reward of their shame — That is, Their sinful and shameful actions, as shame is put for a shameful idol, Hos 9:10, and as fear is often put for the evil feared. Let such as love thy salvation — That great salvation of which the prophets inquired and searched diligently, and which the Redeemer undertook to work out, when he said, Psa 40:7, Lo! I come. All that shall be saved love God’s salvation, which is not only a salvation from hell, but a salvation from sin. Say continually, The Lord be magnified — Let them have continual occasion to magnify Jehovah for his mercies vouchsafed to them.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me - That…
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me - That is, in these troubles and sorrows. See Mat 26:39. The prayer is that, if possible, the cup of sorrow might be taken away.
O Lord, make haste to help me - This is the same form of prayer, and referring, I suppose, to the same occasion as that which occurs in Psa 22:19. See the notes at that verse.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain (Compare Psa 22:19).
(Compare Psa 22:19).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. Psa_40:13-17 recur as Psalms 70, with some verbal…
13. Psa_40:13-17 recur as Psalms 70, with some verbal variations.
Be pleased] An echo of ‘thy good pleasure’ (‘thy will’) in Psa_40:8. The word is omitted in Psalms 70, and in the first line, though not in the second, God is substituted for Lord, according to the usual rule in Book II See Introd., p. lv f.
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make haste to hell me] Cp. Psa_38:22; Psa_22:19.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (13) Be pleased.—From this verse onwards, with some trifling…
(13) Be pleased.—From this verse onwards, with some trifling variations which will be noticed under that psalm, this passage occurs as Psalms 70, where see Notes.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver us. Though one…
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver us. Though one deliverance is just effected (ver. 2), it is not enough; something more is required. The psalmist"s life is still threatened by enemies (ver. 14); he is still scoffed at and flouted (ver. 15). O Lord, make haste to help me; literally, Lord, make haste to my help. (comp. Psa_22:19 Psa_31:2 Psa_38:22) The Church follows the example set, when she says in her vesicles, "O God, make speed to save us. O Lord, make haste to help us."
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me:…
Ver. 13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. How touching! How humble! How plaintive! The words thrill us as we think that after this sort our Lord and Master prayed. His petition is not so much that the cup should pass away undrained, but that he should be sustained while drinking it, and set free from its power at the first fitting moment. He seeks deliverance and help; and he entreats that the help may not be slow in coming; this is after the manner of our pleadings. Is it not? Note, reader, how our Lord was heard in that he feared, for there was after Gethsemane a calm endurance which made the fight as glorious as the victory.
Ver. 13. The remaining verses of this Psalm are almost exactly identical with Psalm 70.
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Ver. 13.
1. The language of believing prayerdeliver me, help me; looking for deliverance and help to God only.
2. Of earnest prayermake haste to help me.
3. Of submissive prayerbe pleased, O Lord, if according to thy good pleasure.
4. Of consistent prayer. Help me, which implies efforts for his own deliverance, putting his own shoulder to the wheel.
Psalms 40:14*
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