Psalm 40:17
Verse 17 of 17. The 40th of 150 chapters in Psalms, in Poetry and Wisdom.
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.
15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.
17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Psalm 40:17 in the World English Bible
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.Read Psalm 40:17 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Psalm 40:17
This may encourage the saints, in distress and affliction, to trust in God and comfort themselves in him, v. 17. David himself was one of these: I am poor and needy (a king, perhaps now on the throne, and yet, being troubled in spirit, he calls himself poor and needy, in want and distress, lost and undone without a Saviour), yet the Lord thinketh upon me in and through the Mediator, by whom we are made accepted.
Read Matthew Henry on Psalm 40:11–17: Encouragement in Prayer.
Pray Psalm 40:17 with someone reading it aloud.
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