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Psalm 40:12 KJV
Psalms · chapter 40 · verse 12
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.Psalm 40:12 · King James Version
Psalm 40:12 in context
10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- innumerablemiçpâra number, definite or indefinite (large, innumerableH4557 →
- iniquitiesʻâvônperversityH5771 →
- compassedʼâphaphto surroundH661 →
- evilsraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- hairssaʻărâhhairinessH8185 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
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The psalmist, having meditated upon the work of redemption, and spoken of it in the person of the Messiah, now comes to make improvement of the doctrine of his mediation between us and God, and therefore speaks in his own person.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-17