Psalms 40:13

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹¹O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me. ¹²For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me. ¹³Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.¹⁴May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated. ¹⁵May those who say to me, "Aha, aha!" be appalled at their own shame. ¹⁶May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, "The LORD be magnified!" ¹⁷But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

Bible Verse Review
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Be: Psalms 25:17, Psalms 25:18, Matthew 26:36-44

make: Psalms 38:22, Psalms 70:1-5

Reciprocal: Psalms 22:19 - O my Psalms 69:17 - hear me speedily Psalms 102:2 - in the day Psalms 116:4 - O Lord Psalms 141:1 - make haste Psalms 143:7 - Hear me

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."

Genesis 40:19
Within three days Pharaoh will lift your head off of you and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body."

Genesis 40:22
But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted the dream to them.

2 Kings 25:27
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah's King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.

Psalms 3:3
But You, O LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

Jeremiah 52:31
Now on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Psalms 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

Psalms 22:8;

O Lord, make haste to help me; Psalms 22:8- :.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me - That is, in these troubles and sorrows. See Matthew 26:39. The prayer is that, if possible, the cup of sorrow might be taken away.

O Lord, make haste to help me - This is the same form of prayer, and referring, I suppose, to the same occasion as that which occurs in Psalms 22:19. See the notes at that verse.