Psalms 40:13 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 40:13

Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.

KJV

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ASV

Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.

WEB

Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.

YLT

Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me, O Jehovah, for my help make haste.

DBT

Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; Jehovah, make haste to my help.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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9 verses on the floor

Psalms 70:1
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord.
Psalms 38:22
Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.
Psalms 141:1
Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
Psalms 25:17–18
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
Psalms 22:19
But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

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If, in singing this psalm, we mix faith with the prophecy of Christ, and join in sincerity with the praises and prayers here offered up, we make melody wit our hearts to the Lord.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

); seeing himself brought by his sins to the very brink of ruin, eternal ruin, with what a holy passion does he cry out, " Be pleased, O Lord! to deliver me (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

O save me from the wrath to come, and the present terrors I am in through the apprehensions of that wrath! I am undone, I die, I perish, without speedy relief. In a case of this nature, where the bliss of an immortal soul is concerned, delays are dangerous; therefore, O Lord! make haste to help me. " III.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The language is not necessarily imprecatory, but rather a confident expectation (Ps 5:11), though the former sense is not inconsistent with Christ's prayer for the forgiveness of His murderers, inasmuch as their confusion and shame might be the very means to prepare them for humbly seeking forgiveness (compare Ac 2:37).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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