Study 33 From The Psalms is: Psalm 40:1-10
This psalm consists of two parts, which differ
widely in their content. The first part is full of joyous thanksgiving for
recent deliverance; the second pleads for help in the midst of distress and
danger.
1. What five things does David say
in verses 1-3 that God did for him? And what effects did his deliverance have
upon those who witnessed it? Have you a corresponding experience of God’s
deliverance, and has it had a similar effect? Cf. Acts 9:34, 35, 41, 42.
2. To what reflections, resolve
and actions did his deliverance give rise in David’s own heart and life? See
verses 4:10.
Note. Verses 6-8 are quoted in
Heb.10:5-7, but from the Lxx version, which has a different reading in the
second line of verse 6. The general meaning is not, however, essentially
different. ‘As the ear is the instrument for receiving the divine command, so
the body is the instrument for fulfilling it.’ (Cambridge Bible).
