Psalms 40:8 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 40:8

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

BSB

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ASV

I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

KJV

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms (397)

Because there is one will, there is one substance, there is inseparable majesty and the power of the Trinity. But there is another voice, that of the flesh; and yet, it too consents to God's will.… Christ accepted death and crucifixion so as to crucify the flesh. For my sake he took on himself the combat, so that he might conquer me. Though Christ's flesh was strong and not liable to sin, he nevertheless took on my sins.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

I delight - This is eminently true, of Christ, and is here observed as an act of heroic obedience, that he not only resolved to do, but delighted in doing the will of God, or what God had commanded him, which was to die, and that a most shameful, and painful, and cursed death.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

I delight to do thy will, O my God. Our blessed Lord alone could completely do the will of God. The law is too broad for such poor creatures as we are to hope to fulfil it to the uttermost: but Jesus not only did the Father's will, but found a delight therein; from old eternity he had desired the work set before him; in his human life he was straitened till he reached the baptism of agony in which he magnified the law, and even in Gethsemane itself he chose the Father's will, and set aside his own.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לַֽעֲשֽׂוֹת־	la.'a.sot-	to do	H6213 →
רְצוֹנְךָ֣	re.tzon.Kha	will your	H7522 →
אֱלֹהַ֣י	'e.lo.Hai	O God my	H430 →
חָפָ֑צְתִּי	cha.Fa.tze.ti	I desire	H2654 →
וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗	ve.To.ra.te.kha	and law your	H8451 →
בְּת֣וֹךְ	be.Tokh	[is] in [the] midst of	H8432 →
מֵעָֽי׃	me.'Ai	inward parts my	H4578 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

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
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words became my joy and my heart’s delight. For I bear Your name, O LORD God of Hosts.
leads to
- Job 23:12
  I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 10:9–10
  And I went to the angel and said, “Give me the small scroll.” “Take it and eat it,” he said. “It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as…
- Ezekiel 3:1–3
  “Son of man,” He said to me, “eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”
- Psalms 119:101–103
  I have kept my feet from every evil path, that I may keep Your word.
- Psalms 19:10
  They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
Through
Romans 7:22
For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
leads to
- Psalms 119:35
  Direct me in the path of Your commandments, for there I find delight.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
John 4:34
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
leads to
- John 6:38
  For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
- John 5:30
  I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

Where the connections lead

The record, by era

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms