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**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 .
**Title. A Psalm.** Hebrew. *Mizmor.* App-65 .
**of David** = by David, and relating to the true David.
**I waited patiently.** Hebrew in waiting I waited. Figure of speech *Polyptoton,* App-6 .
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .
**inclined** = hath inclined.
**heard** = hath heard.

**brought** = hath brought.
**rock.** Hebrew. *sela'.* See notes on [Psalms 18:1](../../../kjv/psalms/18/1) , [Psalms 18:2](../../../kjv/psalms/18/2) .

**a new song.** See note on [Psalms 33:3](../../../kjv/psalms/33/3) .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 . I
**see . . . and fear.** Figure of speech *Paronomasia.* App-6 . Hebrew. *yir'u* . . . v"yira'u = peer and fear.
**trust** = confide Hebrew. *batah.* App-69 .

**Blessed** = Happy. See App-63 .
**man** = strong man. Hebrew. *geber.* App-14 .

**hast done** = didst.
**thoughts.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .
**If I would** = Fain would I.
**numbered:** or rehearsed.

**Sacrifice.** Hebrew. *zabach.* App-43 . Quoted in [Hebrews 10:5-9](../../../kjv/hebrews/10/5-9) .
**offering.** Hebrew. *minchah.* App-43 . Compare [Hebrews 10:5-7](../../../kjv/hebrews/10/5-7) . Note the four great offerings here, and separately: [Psalms 40:6](../../../kjv/psalms/40/6) = any sacrifice; -6-, the meal offering; -6-, burnt offering; -6, sin offering (compare [Psalms 22](../../../kjv/psalms/22) ); and inPs. 69 =the trespass offering.
**opened** = digged. Kal Pret. of *karah,* = opening by digging, or boring. Note the occurrences: [Genesis 50:5](../../../kjv/genesis/50/5) . Num 24:18 . [2 Chronicles 16:14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/16/14) (margin) [Psalms 7:15](../../../kjv/psalms/7/15) (margin); [Psalms 40:6](../../../kjv/psalms/40/6) ; [Psalms 57:6](../../../kjv/psalms/57/6) ; [Psalms 119:85](../../../kjv/psalms/119/85) .[Jeremiah 18:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/22) , [Jeremiah 18:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/18/22) , referring to the opening of the ear to hear; for which, in [Isaiah 50:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/50/5) (compare [Isaiah 48:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/48/8) ), another word ( *pathah* ) is used with the meaning of opening (as of a door). Note the *obedience,* which is the point emphasized by the alternation in [Psalms 40:6](../../../kjv/psalms/40/6) . | Sacrifice and offering. Not desired. | Mine ears hast Thou digged. (Pos.) | Burnt-offering and sin-offering. Not required. | Lo, I come to do. (Pos.) *Obedience* is the great truth here conveyed; and, on the same grounds as in [1 Samuel 15:22](../../../kjv/1-samuel/15/22) .[Jeremiah 7:22](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/22) , [Jeremiah 7:23](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/23) .[Hebrews 10:5](../../../kjv/hebrews/10/5) , is not a *quotation* of this verse: it is what Messiah "said" when He came into the world to *perform* what [Psalms 40:6](../../../kjv/psalms/40/6) *prophesied* , when He had become Incarnate, and could say "I am come". He must change the word "ears" for the "body", in which that *obedience* was to be accomplished, and He had a right to change the words, and thus *adapt* them. It is not a question of *quotation,* or of the Septuagint versus the Hebrew text. Note the heaping up of these expressions to emphasize the obedience, and observe the alternation of positive and negative in verses: [Psalms 40:9](../../../kjv/psalms/40/9) , [Psalms 40:10](../../../kjv/psalms/40/10) .
**hast** = didst.

**Then said I:** i.e. at Incarnation, when He "came into the world" ([Hebrews 10:5](../../../kjv/hebrews/10/5) ).
**volume of the book** = scroll, that is to say, the book. Genitive of Apposition, and Figure of speech *Pleonasm* ( App-6 ) = the book of the law ( App-47 ).
**it is written** = it is prescribed. Compare [2 Kings 22:13](../../../kjv/2-kings/22/13) .
**of me** = for me. Joseph and Mary should have remembered what was "written" ([Luke 2:49](../../../kjv/luke/2/49) ).

**delight.** Note the double delight ([Isaiah 42:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/42/1) .[Matthew 3:17](../../../kjv/matthew/3/17); [Matthew 3:17](../../../kjv/matthew/3/17) ).
**will** = good pleasure.
**within** = in the midst.
**heart** = bowels: i.e. my inward parts.

**preached** = declared as glad tidings = *euaggelizo* in N.T.
**congregation** = assembly, or convocation.

**have not hid** = did not hide.
**salvation** = or deliverance.
**have not concealed** = did not conceal.
**from** = in.

**Withhold not Thou** = Thou wilt not withhold.

**evils** = calamities. Hebrew. *ra'a'* . App-44 .
**iniquities.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for their punishment. Hebrew. *'aven.* App-44 . Laid on Him as the substituted sacrifice.
**am not able** = was not able.
**are more** = were more.
**heart.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for courage.
**faileth me** = failed me.

**soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 .

**Aha, aha.** Figure of speech *Epizeuxis.* App-6 . Compare [Psalms 35:21](../../../kjv/psalms/35/21) ; [Psalms 70:3](../../../kjv/psalms/70/3) .

**Let.** Some codices, with seven early printed editions, Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "And let". Compare [Psalms 35:27](../../../kjv/psalms/35/27) ; [Psalms 70:4](../../../kjv/psalms/70/4) .

**poor** = afflicted. Hebrew. *'anah.*
**the LORD *.** The primitive text read "Jehovah", but altered by the *Sopherim* to "Adonai". See App-32 . Some codices, with seven early printed editions, read "may Jehovah".
**thinketh** = will think. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), App-6 , for all that the thoughts can devise, plan, or order.

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