Psalms 40:9
Well, O Lord, you know that, with lips unrestrained, your righteousness I told in the great congregation,
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8My delight, O God, is to do your will, and your law is within my heart.”
Cross References
Psalms 22:22I will tell of your fame to my kindred, and in the assembly will praise you.
Psalms 35:18I will then give you thanks in the great congregation, and praise you before many people.
Psalms 71:15All the day long shall my mouth tell your faithfulness and your salvation, though I know not how they may be counted.
Psalms 119:171My lips shall be fountains of praise, that you teach me your statutes.
Luke 4:16Coming to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, Jesus, as was his custom, went on the Sabbath into the synagogue, and stood up to read the scriptures.
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 →