Psalms 40:13
Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.
BSB
ASV
Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
KJV
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.
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.
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?
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).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Psalms 38:22Come quickly to help me, O Lord my Savior.
leads to
The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— whom shall I dread?
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
I call upon You, O LORD; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to You.
Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me! Hurry, O LORD, to help me!
Through
Psalms 71:12Be not far from me, O God. Hurry, O my God, to help me.
leads to
Do not forsake me, O LORD; be not far from me, O my God.
O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
