Psalms 40:8 KJV
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Thou and Ye
- thy one person
In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?
Matthew Henry
- Christ's work of redemptionThe psalmist foretells that work of wonder, redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ. The Substance must come, which is Christ, who must bring that glory to God,...
Thompson Chains
- God'sSee the chain from Numbers 16:28 · 3 links
- Sacrifices (1)Last of 12 links
- Joy in ServiceLink 2 of 6 · next Psalms 100:2
- God's WillStarts here · next Matthew 6:10 · 11 links
Cross References
- John 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- Jeremiah 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- Psalms 119:24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
- Psalms 119:47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
- Psalms 119:92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
- Jeremiah 15:16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
- Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
- Psalms 37:30–31 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. …
- Psalms 119:16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
- Psalms 112:1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
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Topics
- David Repents of his crime and confesses his guilt
- Desire Spiritual
- Happiness Of the righteous
- Jesus, the Christ Incarnation of
- Offerings A type of Christ
- Praise For God’s goodness to individuals
- Psalms Prophetic
- Quotations and allusions In the new testament from, and to, the old testament
- Word of God Unclassified scriptures relating to
- Zeal, religious Exemplified
Bible Dictionary
- God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...
Hebrew and Strong’s
- I delight חָפָצְתִּי ḥāpāṣĕttî חָפֵץ Verb · qal perfect, first person common singular
- to do לַעֲשׂוֹת laʿăśôt עָשָׂה Verb · qal infinitive construct · with preposition
- thy will רְצוֹנְךָ rĕṣônĕkā רָצוֹן Noun · masculine singular construct · with suffix: second person masculine singular
- O my God אֱלֹהַי ʾĕlōhay אֱלֹהִים Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: first person common singular
- yea, thy law וְתוֹרָתְךָ wĕtôrotkā תּוֹרָה Noun · feminine singular construct · with and, suffix: second person masculine singular
- within בְּתוֹךְ bĕtôk תָּוֶךְ Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition
- my heart מֵעָי mēʿāy מֵעֶה Noun · masculine plural construct · with suffix: first person common singular
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