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THE MESSAGE
Psalms 40:8
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I delight to do your will, my God,and your instruction is deep within me.”
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."
My God, I want to do what you want. Your teachings are in my heart."
I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts."
"I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart."
"I delight to do Your will, my God; Your Law is within my heart."
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.
I desire to do Your will, O my God;Your law is within my inner being."
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart."
'I enjoy pleasing you. Your Law is in my heart.'"
so then I said, "Here I am! I'm coming! In the scroll of a book it is written about me.
To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
My God, I am happy to do whatever you want. I never stop thinking about your teachings."
I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.
How I love to do your will, my God! I keep your teaching in my heart."
‘I delight to do your will, O my God, and your law is deep within me.'"
I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My inmost soul .
In the begynnynge of the boke it is written of me, that I shulde fulfill thy wil O my God, & that am I contet to do: yee thy lawe is within my hert.
I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Then said I: 'Lo, I am come with the roll of a book which is prescribed for me;
I delight to doe thy will, O my God: yea thy lawe is within my heart.
Then sayde I, lo I am come: in the booke of thy lawe it is written of me that I shoulde fulfyll thy wyll O my God, I am content to do it, yea thy lawe is within the middest of my brest.
I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.
I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.
that Y schulde do thi wille; my God, Y wolde; and thi lawe in the myddis of myn herte.
I delight to do your will, O my God; Yes, your law is inside me.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart."
I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your instructions are written on my heart."
I am happy to do Your will, O my God. Your Law is within my heart."
I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."
To do thy good-pleasure, O my God, is my delight, And, thy law, is in the midst of mine inward parts:
(39-9) That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my heart."
To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law [is] within my heart.
I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart."
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I delight: Psalms 112:1, Psalms 119:16, Psalms 119:24, Psalms 119:47, Psalms 119:92, Job 23:12, Jeremiah 15:16, John 4:34, Romans 7:22, Romans 8:29
yea: Psalms 37:30, Psalms 37:31, Proverbs 3:1, Jeremiah 31:33, 2 Corinthians 3:3
within my heart: Heb. in the midst of my bowels
Reciprocal: Exodus 40:20 - the testimony Leviticus 1:3 - his own Numbers 28:11 - in the beginnings Deuteronomy 6:6 - shall be Deuteronomy 15:16 - General Psalms 1:2 - But his Psalms 19:8 - rejoicing Psalms 84:5 - in whose Psalms 119:11 - Thy word Psalms 119:70 - but I Psalms 119:167 - and I love Proverbs 4:21 - in the Proverbs 21:15 - joy Isaiah 42:21 - he will Isaiah 51:7 - in whose Jeremiah 6:10 - delight Matthew 3:15 - for Matthew 6:10 - Thy will Mark 14:36 - nevertheless Luke 2:49 - my Luke 6:45 - good man Luke 12:50 - and Luke 22:42 - not John 5:30 - because John 6:38 - not John 7:10 - then John 9:31 - and doeth John 14:31 - that the Romans 3:31 - yea Galatians 1:4 - according 1 Thessalonians 4:3 - this Hebrews 1:9 - loved
Cross-References
When the head baker saw how well Joseph's interpretation turned out, he spoke up: "My dream went like this: I saw three wicker baskets on my head; the top basket had assorted pastries from the bakery and birds were picking at them from the basket on my head."
God-friendship is for God-worshipers; They are the ones he confides in.
When people tell you, "Try out the fortunetellers. Consult the spiritualists. Why not tap into the spirit-world, get in touch with the dead?" Tell them, "No, we're going to study the Scriptures." People who try the other ways get nowhere—a dead end! Frustrated and famished, they try one thing after another. When nothing works out they get angry, cursing first this god and then that one, Looking this way and that, up, down, and sideways—and seeing nothing, A blank wall, an empty hole. They end up in the dark with nothing.
"And then Daniel came in. His Babylonian name is Belteshazzar, named after my god, a man full of the divine Holy Spirit. I told him my dream.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I delight to do thy will, O my God,.... This he came down from heaven to do, and this he did do, by preaching the Gospel, and working miracles; and above all by obtaining eternal redemption for his people, which he effected by fulfilling the law, becoming a sacrifice, and suffering and dying in their room; all which were the will of God, and grateful to him, and in doing which Christ took the utmost delight and pleasure, John 4:34;
yea, thy law [is] within my heart; either the whole moral law, under which he was, as man, and the surety of his people; and which was written upon his heart, and which he perfectly obeyed; or that particular law, injunction, and command laid upon him by his Father, to offer himself a sacrifice, and lay down his life for men; which he agreed to, had it in his mind, his heart was set upon it, and he cheerfully complied with it, John 10:18.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I delight to do thy will, O my God - To wit, in obeying the law; in submitting to all the trials appointed to me; in making an atonement for the sins of men. See the notes at Hebrews 10:7. Compare Philippians 2:8; Matthew 26:39.
Yea, thy law is within my heart - Margin, âIn the midst of my bowels.â So the Hebrew. The idea is, that the law of God was within him. His obedience was not external, but proceeded from the heart. How true this was of the Redeemer it is not necessary here to say.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 40:8. To do thy will — God willed not the sacrifices under the law, but he willed that a human victim of infinite merit should be offered for the redemption of mankind. That there might be such a victim, a body was prepared for the eternal Logos, and in that body he came to do the will of God; that is, to suffer and die for the sins of the world.
1. Hence we see that the sovereign WILL of God is that Jesus should be incarnated; that he should suffer and die; or, in the apostle's words, taste death for every man; that all should believe on him, and be saved from their sins; for this is the WILL of God, our sanctification.
2. And as the apostle grounds this on the words of the Psalm, we see that it is the WILL of God that that system shall end; for as the essence of it is contained in its sacrifices, and God says he will not have these, and has appointed the Messiah to do his will, i.e., to die for men, hence it necessarily follows, from the psalmist himself, that the introduction of the Messiah into the world is the abolition of the law; and that his sacrifice is that which shall last for ever.
