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Salmos 40:11
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- AmericanParallel Translations
T�, Jehov�, no apartes de m� tus misericordias: Tu misericordia y tu verdad me guarden siempre.
T�, oh Jehov�, no retengas de m� tus misericordias; tu misericordia y tu verdad me guarden siempre.
T�, SE�OR, no detengas de m� tus misericordias; tu misericordia y tu verdad me guarden siempre.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Withhold: From this verse to the end, we have quite a new subject; for the former contains a thanksgiving, and this contains a supplication. It is nearly the same as the seventieth, and probably formed a distinct Psalm. Psalms 69:13, Psalms 69:16
let thy: Psalms 23:6, Psalms 43:3, Psalms 57:3, Psalms 61:7, Psalms 85:10, Hebrews 5:7
Reciprocal: Psalms 25:6 - thy tender mercies Psalms 51:1 - tender
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord,.... this is a petition of Christ to his Father, when in the midst of his sorrows and sufferings, before related; and particularly when he hid his face from him, and withheld the discoveries of his tender and affectionate love;
let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me; as he had promised; of which promise some notice is given, Isaiah 49:8, in the fulfilment of which the lovingkindness, truth, and faithfulness of God, would appear. Some read these words as expressive of faith in these things, "thou wilt not withhold", c. "thy lovingkindness and thy truth shall continually preserve me" o.
o לא תכלא "non cohibebis", Gejerus, Michaelis יצרוני "custodient me", Vatablus, Gejerus, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord - Do not restrain or hold back thy compassions. Let thy mercies - the expressions of thy love - flow out freely toward me in connection with what I have done. As applicable to the Redeemer, this is a prayer that God would bestow upon him in connection with his work, and as a reward of his work, appropriate proofs of his goodness. And especially is this to be understood here as a prayer for support and deliverance in the sorrows that came upon him in the accomplishment of his work. The prayer is intermediate between the expression of his purpose to do the will of God when all other means of salvation had failed Psalms 40:6-8, and the sorrows or sufferings that would come upon him in the accomplishment of his work Psalms 40:12-13. He saw himself at this point of his life, as represented in the psalm, as about to sink into the depth of woes. He had kept the law of God, and had by his obedience thus far done His will. He had made known the truth of God, and had declared His great message to the assembled multitude that had crowded his path, and thronged to hear him. He saw himself now about to enter the vale of sorrow; to plunge into that depth of the unutterable woes connected with the making of an atonement. He prayed, therefore, that, in these approaching sorrows, God would not withhold the expression of his tender mercy. The point of time, therefore, in the Redeemer’s life which the verse before us occupies, is that awful and sorrowful hour when, his public work of teaching and of miracles finished, he was about to endure the agonies of Gethsemane and of the cross.
Let thy loving-kindness - Thy mercy. “And thy truth.” Thy promises; thy plighted support and strength; thy fidelity. That is, he prayed that God would show himself true and faithful in bearing him through the great work of the atonement.
Continually - Through the whole of these sorrows. Do not for a moment leave or forsake me.
Preserve me - Keep me from sinking under these woes; from speaking any improper word; from shrinking back; from being overcome by the tempter; from failing in the great work now to be accomplished. As the Redeemer had a human as well as a divine nature; as he was man, with all human susceptibilities to suffering, it was not inappropriate that he should utter this prayer, and lift up his heart with the utmost earnestness to God, that he might not be forsaken in the consummation of the great work of his life, and that this work might not fail.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 40:11. Thy tender mercies — רחמיך rachameycha, such propensities and feelings as a mother bears to her child; or animals in general to their young.
Let thy loving-kindness — חסדך chasdecha, thy overflowing and superabundant mercy.
And thy truth — What is revealed in thy word: continually preserve me. Mercy to help me, truth to direct me; and, by the operation of both, I shall be continually preserved from sin and evil.
