Psalms 40:9
\40:8\My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
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In Context
8\40:7\Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book,
Cross References
Psalms 22:22\22:21\Be my saviour from the lion's mouth; let me go free from the horns of the cruel oxen.
Psalms 35:18I will give you praise in the great meeting; I will give you honour among a strong people.
Psalms 71:15My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.
Psalms 119:171Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.
Jeremiah 31:33But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
Luke 4:16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 40:7-11
Insufficiency of the Legal Sacrifices; The Efficacy of Christ's Sacrifice. 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart. 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord , thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my… Read the whole commentary →