Psalms 40:11

O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

In Context

10I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

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.

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Cross References

Psalms 23:6Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalms 57:3He reaches down from heaven and saves me; He rebukes those who trample me. Selah God sends forth His loving devotion and His truth.

Psalms 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.

Psalms 85:10Loving devotion and faithfulness have joined together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

Proverbs 20:28Loving devotion and faithfulness preserve a king; by these he maintains his throne.

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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