Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
7Then said I, Lo, I come: for in the rolle of the booke it is written of me,
Cross References
Exodus 21:6Then his master shall bring him vnto the Iudges, and set him to the dore, or to the poste, and his master shall bore his eare through with a nawle, and he shall serue him for euer.
Job 5:9Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.
Psalms 50:8I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
Psalms 71:15My mouth shall daily rehearse thy righteousnesse, and thy saluation: for I knowe not the nomber.
Psalms 139:18If I should count them, they are moe then the sand: when I wake, I am still with thee.
Isaiah 25:1O Lord, thou art my God: I will exalt thee, I will prayse thy Name: for thou hast done wonderfull things, according to the counsels of old, with a stable trueth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 40:2-6
The Benefit of Confidence in God. 1 I waited patiently for the Lord ; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord . 4 Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Many, O Lord my God, are thy… Read the whole commentary →