Psalms 40:14

"Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD."

Key Reflection

This verse expresses a deep longing for divine intervention and assistance. The psalmist pleads for the Lord's swift deliverance, reflecting a heart earnestly dependent on God's power to rescue in times of distress.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Let them be ashamed and confounded together -See atPsalms 35:4, note;Psalms 35:26, note. This may be understood here rather as a confident expectation than a wish or desire. It implies the certainty that they would thus be ashamed and confounded; that is, that they would not be successful, or would be foiled in their purposes. But understood as a wish or prayer, it could not be improper. There is no sin in the wish that the wicked may not be successful in their plans, and may not be suffered to injure us.

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