Psalms 40:8

All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

7And when he came in to see me, he was speaking emptiness. His heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went outside, and he was speaking in the same way.

9They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again?

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Cross References

Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.

Jeremiah 31:33But this will be the covenant that I will form with the house of Israel, after those days, says the Lord: I will give my law to their inner most being, and I will write it upon their heart. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Romans 7:22For I am delighted with the law of God, according to the inner man.

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 →

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