Psalm 40

Salmo 40

Verse 1

I waited patiently for the Lord. Patiently waiting on God was a special characteristic of our Lord Jesus. Impatience never remained in his heart, much less escaped from his lips. During all your anguish in the garden, your judgment of cruel scorn before Herod and Pilate, and from his passion for the tree, he waited with omnipotence. of patience. No look of anger, no word of murmuring, no act of revenge came from the patient Lamb of God; he waited and waited; was patient and patient until perfection, far surpassing all the others who, according to their measure, glorified God in the fire. Job in the mantle is not like Jesus on the cross. The Christ of God wears the imperial crown. between the patient.

The Only Begotten waited, and shall we be presumptuous and rebellious? And He bowed down to my mom heard my cry. Neither Jesus, nor the head, nor anyone else members of your body, the Lord will never be waited in vain. Mark the figure of inclination, as if the supplicant cried out from the lowest depression and love condescending would lean down to hear your feeble moans. What a wonder is that our Lord Jesus has to cry like us, and wait like us, and to receive help from the Father after the same process of faith and supplication that must to have passed through ourselves! The prayers of the Savior among the mountains of midnight and in Gethsemane expose this verse. The Son of David was elevated very low, but he rose to victory; and here he teaches us how lead our conflicts to succeed by following the same glorious pattern of triumph. Let us arm ourselves with the same mindset; and panoplied in patience, armed with prayer and girded with faith, we will maintain the holy war.

Verse 2

He also brought me out of a horrible pit. When our The Lord took upon Himself the terrible curse that was due to sin, he was so downcast that he was like a prisoner in a deep, dark, and terrifying dungeon, in the midst of whose horrible shadows the The captive heard a noise of rushing torrents. While the overload rescue the vagabond from furious enemies. Our Lord, in His anguish, it was like a captive in the abyss, forgotten by all humanity, immersed in the midst of horror, darkness, and desolation. However, the Lord Jehovah made with that he should rise above all his humiliation; He retraced his steps from that deep hell of anguish in which he had been climbed as our substitute. The one who thus delivered our safety in extremis, not Will stop freeing us from our lighter sorrows. Out of the muddy clay.

The sufferer was like someone who cannot find a position. secure, but it slips and sinks. The figure indicates not only positive misery. as in the previous figure, but the absence of solid comfort for which sadness it could have become bearable. Once a man has a good position, and a burden is quite relieved, but to be carried and placed on viscous and slippery mud should be attempted doubly. Reader, with humble gratitude, adore the beloved Redeemer who, because of you, was deprived of all comfort surrounded by all forms of misery; observe your gratitude for to be born amidst your hard efforts and sufferings, and if you also experienced divine help, do not forget to join your Lord in this song. And I set my feet upon a rock and established my steps. The work the Redeemer is completed. It rests on the solid ground of its commitments fulfilled; he can never suffer again; forever he queen in glory. What a comfort to know that Jesus, our Lord and Savior, is about a secure foundation in everything he is and does for us, and his exits in love cannot be interrupted by failure in the years to come, for God fixed him firmly. He is eternal and eternally able to save. perfectly those who approach God through him, since in the highest heavens He always lives to intercede for them. Jesus is the true Joseph taken from abyss to be the Lord of all. It is something more than a 'sip of sweetness' to remind that if we are cast down like our Lord in the lowest abyss of shame and sadness, by faith we will rise above the same rock elevated, safe and eternal of divine favor. and faithfulness. and its departures in love they are not susceptible to being interrupted by failure in the years vined, for God has firmly established it. He is eternal and eternally able. to perfectly save those who draw near to God through him, since in heaven but the highest always lives to intercede for them. Jesus is the true Joseph pulled from the abyss to be the Lord of all. It is something more than a "gulp of "sweetness" to remember that if we are cast like our Lord in the most under the deep abyss of shame and sadness, by faith we will rise above it elevated, secure, and eternal rock of divine favor and faithfulness. and its exits.

No love is susceptible to being interrupted by failure over the years. vindouros, for God has firmly established it. He is eternal and eternally capable to save perfectly those who come to God through him, since in heaven but the highest always lives to intercede for them. Jesus is the true Joseph pulled from the abyss to be the Lord of all. It is something more than a "gulp of "sweetness" to remember that if we are cast as our Lord in the most low abyss of shame and sadness, by faith we will rise above it elevated, secure, and eternal rock of divine favor and fidelity. seeing that we higher heavens he always lives to intercede for them. Jesus is the true Joseph thrown from the abyss to be the Lord of all. It is something more than a "sweetness goal" to remember that if we are launched like our Lord in lower abyss of shame and sadness, by faith we will rise above it the same elevated, secure, and eternal rock of divine favor. and faithfulness. seeing that in the highest heavens he always lives to intercede for them. Jesus is the true José taken from the abyss to be the Lord of all. It is something more than what a "sip of sweetness" to remind us that if we are launched like our Lord in the lowest abyss of shame and sadness, through faith in we will rise upon the same elevated, secure, and eternal rock of divine favor. and fidelity.

And he put a new song in my mouth, yes, praising our God.

On Easter, before his passion, our Lord sang one of the great psalms of praise; but what is the song of your heart now, in the midst of your redeemed ones! What song is it that your happy heart carries forever the chorus of the elect! Neither Miriam's camp nor Moses' triumphant hymn about Miriam's chivalry can, for a moment, rival with that song always new and exultant. Extended justice and victorious grace; subjugated inferno and glorified heaven; death destroyed and immortality established; defeated sin and shining justice; what a theme for a hymn on that day when our Lord drinks the new red wine for all of us no reino de nosso Pai celestial! Mesmo na terra, e antes de sua grande paixão, he foresaw the joy that was set before him, and was sustained by the perspective. Our God. The God of Jesus, the God of Israel, "my God and your God. How we will praise him, but ah! Jesus will be the main one. protagonist of our string instruments; he will lead the solemn hallelujah that the sacramental host redeemed by the blood will rise. Many will see it and fear. and they will trust in the Lord. A multitude that no man can number must see the sorrows and triumphs of Jesus, who trembled because of his rejection her sinful one, and then by grace they will receive faith and become trusters in Jehovah. Here is the reward of our Lord. Here is the guarantee that makes the preachers bold and the workers persevering. Reader, you are one among the many? Observe the way of salvation, a vision, a fear, a confidence! You know what it means to have them and practice them in your own soul? Trusting in the Lord is the evidence, or rather, the essence of salvation. He who is a true believer is evidently redeemed from dominion of sin and Satan.

Verse 4

Blessed. This is an exclamation similar to that of the first Psalm: "Oh, the happiness of man." God's blessings are emphatic: "I I think that the one you bless is truly blessed.

It is that man who makes the Lord his trust. Faith obtains promises.

A simple trust of a single eye in God is the sure mark of goodadventurous. A man can be as poor as Lazarus, as hated as Mordecai, as sick as Hezekiah, as lonely as Elijah, but as long as your hand of faith can maintain your dominion over God, none of His external afflictions may prevent him from being counted among the blessed. but the richest and most prosperous man who has no faith is cursed, be it he who he is. And does not respect the proud. The proud expect that all men bow down and pay homage, as if the worship of golden calves would be reestablished in Israel; but to believe that the men are too noble to honor mere bags of money, or if shrink in the face of a bombastic dignity. The just pay their respect to humble kindness, and not to inflated self-esteem. Our Lord Jesus was in this our brilliant example.

No flattery of kings and greats ever fell from his lips; he did not give honor dishonorable men. The proud have never been your favorites. Nor how to divert to lies. Heresies and idolatries are lies, thus like greed, worldliness, and the search for pleasures. Woe to those who such errors follow. Our Lord has always been both the truth and the lover of truth, and the father of lies had no part in him. We should never pay attention to the apostates, time servers, and false teachers; they are a sick yeast and the more we purify ourselves from them, the better; they are blessed are those whom God preserves from all error in creed and practice.

Judged by this verse, many apparently happy people must be the inverse of the blessed, for anything in the form of a bag, a crew fine, or a wealthy establishment, commands your reverence, if the owner to be a rake or a saint, an idiot or a philosopher. In truth, the archangel of hell to start a carriage and a pair, and to live As a lord, he would have thousands of people who would court him. knowledge.

5. Many, O Lord my God, are your wonderful works which you have done. A creation, providence, and redemption are filled with wonders like the sea with life. Our special attention is drawn to this passage for the wonders that gather around the cross and shine from it. A redemption accomplished reaches many ends and compiles a variety of projects; the expenses of the atonement are not to be counted upwards, the influences of the crosses reach more than the rays of the sun. Wonders of grace beyond all The enumerations arise from the cross; adoption, forgiveness, justification, and a long the chain of miracles of divine love comes from this. Note that our Lord here it speaks of the Lord as "my God". The man that Christ Jesus He claimed for himself and for us a covenant relationship with Jehovah. That may our interest in our God always be our peculiar treasure. teus pensamentos que são para nós. Os pensamentos divinos marcham com the divine acts, for it is not in accordance with God's wisdom to act without deliberation and counsel. All divine thoughts are good and gracious for His chosen ones. God's thoughts of love are many, very wonderful, very practical!

Musa in them, dear reader; No sweeter subject has ever occupied your mind. God's thoughts about you are many, do not let the they may be few in exchange. They cannot be considered in order to you. Its total is so large that it prohibits analysis and numbering. The minds humans do not measure or arrange the ways and thoughts of the Lord; and it must always be this way, for he said: "Just as the sky is higher than For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts more than your thoughts". No maze to get lost like the labyrinth of love. How sweet it is to be overcome, overcome be dominated by the astonishing grace of our Lord God! If I declared and you spoke about them, and surely this should be the occupation of my tongue In all seasonal opportunities, they are more than they can be. counted; far beyond all human arithmetic, they are multiplied; thoughts of all eternity, thoughts of my fall, my restoration, my redemption, my conversion, my forgiveness, my support, my improvement, my eternal reward; the list is very longa para escrever, e o valor das misericórdias é muito grande para estimar.

However, if we cannot show all the works of the Lord, let us not do it.

I apologize for the silence; for our Lord, who is in this our better example, often speaks of the sincere thoughts of the great Father. Because our Lord, who is in this our best example, often speak of the tender thoughts of the great Father. For our Lord, who is in this our best example often speaks of the tender thoughts of Great Father.

Verse 6

Here we enter one of the most wonderful passages in the entire Old Testament, a passage in which the incarnate Son of God is seen not through a grim glass, but as if facing face. Sacrifice and offering you did not desire. Considered in themselves, and for themselves.

Likewise, the Lord saw nothing satisfactory in the various offerings of the law. ceremonial. Neither the victim shedding its blood, nor the fine flour rising in the smoke of the altar, they could surrender to the mind of Jehovah; he did not care with the meat of bulls or goats, nor did he enjoy corn and wine, oil. Typically, these offerings had their value, but when Jesus, the antitype, came into the world, they ceased to be valuable, just like the candles they are not estimated when the sun rises. My ears opened. Our The Lord was quick to hear and fulfill the will of His Father; His ears were as if they were excavated in your soul; they were not closed like the wells of Isaac, whom the Philistines filled, but clear passages up to the sources of his soul. The prompt obedience of our Lord is the first idea here. There is no, however, no reason to reject the notion that ear digging here intended may refer to the annoying ear of the servant, who refused, for love for your lord, take your freedom, in the year of jubilee.; your ear perforated, the sign of perpetual service, is a true image of the fidelity of our blessed Lord to the Father's business and His love for children of the Father. Jesus irrevocably surrendered himself to be the servant of servants for us and for the glory of God. The Septuagint, which Paul quoted, translated this passage: "A body prepared me": how this reading emerged is not easy of imagining, but since the apostolic authority sanctioned the variation, we we accept it not as an error, but as an example of various readings equally inspired. In any case, the passage represents the Only Begotten. as coming into the world equipped for service; and in a real body and material, for real life and death, setting aside all the shadows of the law mosaic. The burnt offering and the sin offering were not required. Two others forms of offerings are mentioned here; signs of gratitude and sacrifices for sin, as typically presented, are set aside; neither the offerings public nor private are in more demand. What is the need for mere emblems when the substance itself is present? We learn from this verse that Jehovah values much more obedience of the heart than all the imposing performances of cult ritual; and that our expiation sin does not come to us as a result of an elaborate ceremony, but like the effect of our great substitute's obedience to Jehovah's will.

Verse 7

Then I said. This is to say, when it was clearly seen that the misery of man could not be remedied by sacrifices and offerings.

It being certain that the mere images of atonement, and the bare symbols of propitiations were useless, the Lord Jesus, in his own person, intervened. The blessed 'so I said.' Lord, always give us to hear and to feed us of living words like these, so peculiarly and personally yours. I I come. Behold the heavens and the earth, and you are beneath the earth! Here is something worthy of your most intense gaze. Sit down and watch seriously, for the Invisible God comes in the likeness of sinful flesh and, when a child, Infinity is hanging on the chest of a virgin! Emanuel did not send but he came in his own personality in everything that constituted his self essential, he came out of the ivory palaces to the abodes of misery; he came promptly at the designated hour; He came with sacred enthusiasm as someone who offered themselves freely. In the volume of the book, it is written from me.

In the eternal decree, it is thus recorded. The mystical roll of predestination that the providence gradually reveals, contained within it, for knowledge to Salvador, a written alliance, that in the fullness of time the divine I would descend to the earth to fulfill a purpose that the hecatombs of cattle and sheep could not reach. What a privilege to find our names written in the book of life, and what an honor, since the name of Jesus leads the page!

Our Lord had respect for His ancient covenant commitments, and here he teaches us to be scrupulously just in keeping our word; we We promised, is it written in the book of remembrance? Then let us never part. be offenders.

Verse 8

I take pleasure in doing your will, O my God. Our blessed The Lord alone could fully do the will of God. The law is too broad for creatures as poor as if we expected to fulfill it at maximum: but Jesus not only did the will of the Father, but found it in delight; since ancient eternity he had desired the work that had been proposed to him; in his human life, he was strengthened until reaching the baptism of agony in which expanded the law, and even in Gethsemane itself he chose the will of the Father and set aside his own. Here is the essence of obedience, or be, in the joyful devotion of the soul to God: and the obedience of our Lord, which it is our justice, it is by no means lacking in this quality eminent. Despite their immeasurable sorrows, our Lord found pleasure in his work, and for 'the joy that was set before him, he he bore the cross, disregarding the shame "Yes, your law is within me heart. No formal external devotion was offered by Christ; his the heart was in his work, holiness was his element, the will of the Father his flesh and drink. We must each of us be like our Lord in this, we will lack the evidence of being your disciples. When there is no work of the heart, neither pleasure, nor pleasure in the law of God, cannot exist acceptance. The devoted reader adores the Savior for the spontaneous and manner healthy in which he undertook the great work of our salvation. Where not there is no work of the heart, nor pleasure, nor pleasure in the law of God, it cannot have acceptance. Let the devoted reader worship the Savior by the way spontaneous and warm in which he undertook the great work of our salvation. Where there is no work of the heart, neither pleasure, nor pleasure in the law of God, there can be no acceptance. Let the devoted reader worship the Savior for the spontaneous and warm way in which he undertook the great work of our salvation.

9. I have proclaimed justice in the great assembly. The purest morality and the highest sanctity were preached by Jesus. divine justice it was your theme. The whole life of our Lord was a sermon, eloquent beyond of comparison, and is heard every day by myriads. Moreover, he never he avoided in his ministry to declare the whole counsel of God; great plan of God's justice, He clearly exposed. He taught openly in the temple and he was not ashamed to be a faithful and true witness. He was the great evangelist; the master of itinerant preachers; the head of the clan of outdoor missionaries. Oh servants of the Lord, do not hide your lights, but reveal to others what your God has revealed to you; and especially through your lives testify for holiness, be a champion for justice, both in words how much in actions. Behold, I have not restrained my lips, O Lord. you You know. Never for love of will, out of fear of men, the lips of the Great Masters closed. He was instantaneous in season and off season.

The poor heard him and the princes heard his rebuke; publicans are They rejoiced with him, and the Pharisees became enraged, but for both of them he proclaimed the truth of heaven. It is good for an experienced believer when he can appeal to God and call Him to witness that he does not have ashamed to bear witness to him; to be sure that, if we do not If we are ashamed to confess our God, He will never be ashamed of us. to possess. However, what a marvel it is here, that the Son of God pleads, thus as we implore and exhort precisely the arguments that are suitable for the mouth of your diligent ministers! How truly he is 'made similar to his brothers.

Verse 10

I have not hidden your righteousness in my heart. For contrary, "never has a man spoken like this man." God's divine plan. to make men just was well known to him, and he clearly taught this. What was in the heart of our great Master, he poured out in the holy eloquence of his lips. The doctrine of justice by faith, he spoke with great simplicity of expression. The law and the gospel equally they found in him a clear expositor. I declared your loyalty and your salvation. Jehovah's faithfulness to His promises and His grace in saving the believers were declared by the Lord Jesus on many occasions, and are blessed in the gospel that he came to preach. God, faithful to his own character, law and threats, and still saving sinners, is a peculiar revelation In the Gospel. God faithful to the saved is the joy of the followers of Christ Jesus.

I have not hidden your kindness and your truth from the great congregation. contest, as well as the severe attributes of God, our Lord Jesus totally revealed. The concealment was far from the Great Apostle of our profession. Cowardice that he never displayed, the hesitation never weakened his language. He who, like a twelve-year-old child, spoke in the temple. among the doctors, and then preached to five thousand in Gennesaret, and to the vast crowds in Jerusalem on that great day, the last day of the festival, he was always ready to proclaim the name of the Lord, and could never be accused of profane silence. He could be foolish when the prophecy demanded and the patience suggested, but on the other hand, preaching was his flesh and his drink, and he did not keep anything that could be useful for his disciples. This on the day of his anguish, according to this Psalm, he used as a plea for divine help. He was faithful to his God and now asks for the Lord let him be faithful to Him. May every idiot teacher, tongue tied by shameful sin, consider the little you may claim after this fashion on the day of your distress.

Verse 11

Do not take away your mercies from me, O Lord. Alas! these they should be held back from our Lord for some time while they were in the cursed tree, but in the meantime, in its great agony it seeks for kindness; and the coming of the angel to strengthen him was a clear response to his prayer. He had been blessed once in the desert, and now, at the entrance of the valley of shadow of death, like a true man, confident and experienced, he proclaims a holy and melancholic wish for the tenderness of heaven. He had not detained his testimony of the truth of God, now in exchange he begs for his Father who does not withhold your compassion. This verse could be read more correctly as a statement of your confidence that the help would not be rejected; but, let us see this statement as the cry of prayer, or the statement of faith, in both cases, is instructive for us who carry our Suffering Lord as an example, and he proves to us how completely he was. made similar to your brothers. Let your kindness and your truth preserve me continuously. He had preached these two, and now he asks an experience of theirs, so that it can be maintained on the day of evil and rescued from their enemies and their afflictions. Nothing pleases us more than to hear him, thus pleading with strong cries and tears to the one who was able to Save. Lord Jesus, in our nights of struggle we will remember you. Nothing we like it more than hearing him, thus begging with strong crying and tears to the one who was able to save. Lord Jesus, in our nights of struggle in we will remember you. Nothing pleases us more than to hear you, thus pleading with strong cries and tears to him who was able to save. Lord Jesus, in the Our nights of struggle will remind us of you.

Verse 12

For countless evils have surrounded me. From all sides they was surrounded by evils; countless misfortunes surrounded the great Substitute for our sins. Our sins were countless, and so were theirs. sorrows. There was no escape for us from our iniquities, and there was no escape for him from the misfortunes that we deserve. Of all the accumulated male quadrants over the blessed, although in his heart but did not find a place. My iniquities have taken hold of me, from so I am not able to look up. He had not sinned, but the sins were placed upon him, and he took them as if they were his.

Sin was made for us. and produced in him, as a man, the horror that forbade him to look upon the face of God, bending him down with overwhelming anguish and misfortune. Oh my soul, what your sins would have done to you eternally if the friend of sinners would not have condescended to take them all upon himself Really? Oh, blessed Scripture! 'The Lord made to find upon him the iniqüidade de todos nós." Oh, maravilhosa profundidade de amor, que could take the perfectly immaculate to remain in the place of the sinner, and to endure the horror of the great tremor that sin must bring to those who have awareness of this. They are more than the hairs on my head; that is why the my heart fails me. The pains of divine punishment were beyond the calculation, and the soul of the Savior was so burdened with them that he was very astonished and very heavy until a sweat of blood. His strength was he was in agony.

Verse 13

I am pleased, Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, come quickly to help me.

How exciting! How humble! What a lament! The words to us we are moved when we think that, after this type, our Lord and Master orou. Your petition is not so much that the cup should go unnoticed, but that she must be supported while she is a baby, and freed from her power at the first appropriate moment. He seeks liberation and help; and he pleads that the help do not take long to arrive; this is after the manner of our supplications. Not Is it? Note, reader, how our Lord was heard in what He feared, for there was after Gethsemane a peaceful resistance that made the struggle so glorious as for the victory.

14. Let those who seek my soul be ashamed and confounded destroy it. Whether we read this as a prayer or a prophecy, it doesn't matter, for the powers of sin, death, and hell may be ashamed when they see the result of their wickedness turning against them forever same. It is to the infinite confusion of Satan that his attempts to destroy the Salvador was destroyed; the diabolical conclave that conspired in council now they are all ashamed, for the Lord Jesus found them all the points, and turned all his wisdom into folly. Let them be taken back and embarrassed by those who wish me ill. That's how it is; the dark armies are completely defeated, and they made a theme for the holy mockery forever. How they rejoiced with the thought of crushing the woman's seed! but the Crucified conquered it Nazarene laughed at them with disdain, the dying Son of Man became the death of death and the destruction of hell. Forever blessed be your name.

Verse 15

Let them be desolate, or astonished; just as Jesus was. desolate in his agony, leave your enemies in despair when he them to defeat. The desolation caused in the hearts of evil spirits and men mouse by envy, malice, disappointment, disappointment and despair, will be a appropriate reward for your cruelty to the Lord when he was in his hands. For a reward for your shame, tell me, Ah! The demon Did the filthy insult our Lord? See how shame is now your reward!

Today, wicked men pour shame upon the name of the Redeemer? His desolation will avenge against its adversaries! Jesus is the gentle Lamb for all. those who seek mercy through His blood; but the despisers guard him, for he is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and "who will awaken him?" The Jewish rulers rejoiced and disdainfully said: "Aha, aha;" but when the streets of Jerusalem flowed like rivers of depths, "and the temple was completely consumed," so his house was left in desolation, and the blood of the last of the prophets, according to his own desire, came upon themselves. and about their children. dishonest reader, if that person looks over this page, be careful to pursue Christ and his people, for God surely it will avenge its own elects. Your 'ahas' will cost dearly. It is difficult to kick against the pricks. Be careful in pursuing Christ and His people, for God will certainly avenge his own elect. Your 'ahas' will cost dear. It's hard for you to kick against the pricks. Be careful to pursue Christ. and his people, for God will certainly avenge his own elect. His 'ahas' It will be expensive. It's hard for you to bet against the points.

16. Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. We did with Ebal and we turned to Gerizim. Here our Lord pronounces blessings upon your people. Observe who are the blessed objects of your petition: not all men, but some men: "I pray for them, not I plead for the world." He asks those who seek: the lowest of the kingdom, the family babies; those who have true wishes, prayers of longing and consistent efforts after God. Let the souls in search of courage take courage when they hear this. What riches of grace, that in your bitterest moment Jesus would remember the lambs of the flock!

And what does he ask of them? It is that they can be doubly joyful, intensely happy, emphatically joyful, as such is the repetition of terms implies. Jesus would have all seekers happy, finding what they seeking and conquering peace through their pain. As deep as they were your sorrows, so high he would have his joys. He groaned so that we could singing and was covered with bloody sweat so that we could be anointed with the oil of joy. Let those who love your salvation say continuously: The Lord be exalted. Another result of passion of Redemption is the promotion of God's glory by those who please Him with the pleasure of your salvation. The desire of our Lord must be our directory; we we love with all our heart your great salvation, let's then, with all the our tongues proclaim the glory of God which is resplendent in this. Never let your praises cease. As the heart is warm with joy, let it be to incite the tongue to a perpetual praise. If we cannot do what we want for the expansion of the kingdom, at least let's wish and pray for it. Be our to make the glory of God the main purpose of every breath and heartbeat.

The suffering Redeemer considered the consecration of his people to the service of heaven as a great result of your expiatory death; it is the joy that was placed before him; that God is glorified as the reward of labor the Redeemer Savior considered the consecration of his people to service of heaven as a great result of your expiatory death; it is joy that was placed before him; that God is glorified as the reward of work of the Savior. The suffering Redeemer considered the consecration of his people in the service of heaven as a great result of his expiatory death; it is the joy that was set before him; that God is glorified as the reward for the work of Salvador.

Verse 17

But I am poor and needy. The man of sorrows ends with another appeal, based on your affliction and poverty. However, the Lord thinks in me. Sweet was this comfort for the sacred heart of the great sufferer.

The thoughts of the Lord about us are an encouraging theme for meditation, for they are always kind and never cease. His disciples abandoned him and your friends forgot you, but Jesus knew that Jehovah never stayed away from your heart, and that sustained him in the time of need. You are my help and my liberator. Your unshakable trust remained alone in God. Oh, what All believers imitate more fully their great Apostle and High.

Priest in his firm trust in God, even when the afflictions are abundant and the light is veiled. Do not delay, O my God. The danger was imminent, the urgent need, the supplicant could not bear any delay, nor was it thank you for waiting, for the angel came to strengthen and the brave heart of Jesus He stood up to face the enemy. Lord Jesus, grant that, in all the In our adversities, we possess precious faith and may we be more like you. than conquerors.