Psalms 40:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 40

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Psalms 40:8 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Psalms 40:7 Psalms 40:9 →

Original word meaning

— of 7

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Psalms 119:24
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.

Topics

Animals Bible Blood Bread Bull Cattle Consecration Daily Offering

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-10)

The psalmist, being struck with amazement at the wonderful works that God had done for his people, is strangely carried out here to foretel that work of wonder which excels all the rest and is the foundation and fountain of all, that of our redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ. God’s thoughts, which were to us-ward concerning that work, were the most curious, the most copious, the most gracious, an…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

6-8. In Paul’s view this passage has more meaning than the mere expression of grateful devotion to God’s service. He represents Christ as declaring that the sacrifices, whether vegetable or animal, general or special expiatory offerings, would not avail to meet the demands of God’s law, and that He had come to render the required satisfaction, which he states was effected by “the offering of the b…