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Salmos 40:5
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Aumentado has t�, oh Jehov� Dios m�o, tus maravillas; Y tus pensamientos para con nosotros, No te los podremos contar: Si yo anunciare y hablare de ellos, No pueden ser enarrados.
Has aumentado, oh Jehov� Dios m�o, tus maravillas; y tus pensamientos para con nosotros, no te los podremos contar; si yo anunciare y hablare de ellos, no pueden ser enumerados.
Aumentado has t�, oh SE�OR Dios m�o, tus maravillas; y tus pensamientos para con nosotros, no te los podremos contar, anunciar, ni hablar; no pueden ser narrados.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Many: Psalms 136:4, Exodus 11:8, Exodus 15:11, Job 5:9, Job 9:10, Job 26:14
thoughts: Psalms 71:15, Psalms 92:5, Psalms 139:6, Psalms 139:17, Psalms 139:18, Isaiah 55:8, Isaiah 55:9, Jeremiah 29:11
they cannot: etc. or, none can order them unto thee, Job 37:19, Job 37:20
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 7:23 - great things Job 6:3 - my words are swallowed up Job 42:3 - things Psalms 40:17 - I am poor Psalms 89:6 - For who Psalms 104:24 - how Psalms 106:2 - utter Psalms 107:8 - his wonderful Psalms 118:17 - declare Psalms 147:5 - his understanding is infinite Ecclesiastes 8:17 - that a man Ecclesiastes 11:5 - even Isaiah 12:4 - declare Isaiah 25:1 - thou hast Isaiah 28:29 - cometh Isaiah 30:33 - the breath Ezekiel 1:16 - a wheel Luke 1:3 - in John 21:25 - there Acts 2:11 - wonderful Romans 11:33 - how 1 Corinthians 13:9 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Many, O Lord my God, [are] thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done,.... This is the "new song", as Aben Ezra rightly observes, which is said in Psalms 40:3, to be put in the mouth of the Messiah; who sometimes speaks in the plural number, being the representative of his people, and sometimes in the singular; for it is the same person that speaks here who is continued speaking in Psalms 40:6, and following; and which are applied to Christ, Hebrews 10:5; the "works" here said to be done, and to be "many" and "wonderful", are not the creation of the world, the dividing of the sea, and feeding the people of Israel forty years in the wilderness, as Jarchi interprets them; but the incarnation of Christ, redemption by him, the resurrection of him from the dead; regeneration and conversion, and the preservation of the saints from the evil of the world, safe to the kingdom and glory of God; all which, as they are many and various, and display the manifold wisdom and grace of God, so they are marvellous, and will be the subject of the wonder of saints to all eternity;
and thy thoughts [which are] to us-ward; that is, the decrees of God, as Aben Ezra truly explains them; the purposes, counsels, and intentions of God; which, though mentioned last, are before his works, and are the spring of them: these were in the mind of God from everlasting, were unknown till revealed, were thoughts of peace, and not of evil, and are unfrustrable, and ever fulfilled, and are manifold, precious, and amazing, Psalms 139:17; and these were concerning all the elect of God as considered in Christ, and members of his; and therefore he says to us-ward; and all the works before mentioned were done to them, or for them, and on their account; and so Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret the phrase, "because of us", or "for our sakes"; even the incarnation, sufferings, death, and resurrection of Christ, and the thoughts of them, were for them;
they cannot be reckoned up in order to thee; or "there is none can order them unto thee" l; there is no power in man to do it, as Aben Ezra observes; or "there is none like unto thee", as Jarchi and the Oriental versions; see Exodus 15:11; though this sense seems to break in upon the account of the wonderful works and thoughts of God, which are still designed in the following clause;
[if] I could declare and speak [of them], they are more than can be numbered; that is, by men: from this general account of, the many and wonderful works and thoughts of God, the Messiah passes on to take notice of one particular design and work of the Lord, the redemption of his people by the sacrifice of himself.
l אין ערוך אליך "non est qui ordinet apud te", Pagninus; "none can count them in order to thee", Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done - literally, “Many (things), O Lord my God, hast thou done; thy wonderful things and thy thoughts toward us, it is not (possible) to state unto thee.” The recollection of the particular kindness shown to the speaker, as referred to in the previous verses, suggests the recollection of the great number of wonders that God had done for his people - the acts of his kindness which it would be hopeless to attempt to recount before him. And who “could” enumerate and record all the acts of God’s benevolence toward men in the works of creation, providence, and redemption; all that he has done in the history of the Church, and for the individual members of the Church in past times; all that he has done to save his people in the days of persecution; all that has been accomplished in our own individual lives? Obviously these things are beyond all power of enumeration by man. They can be admired now only in the gross; eternity alone will be sufficient for us to look at them and to recount them in detail. The phrase “wonderful works” means here remarkable interventions; things fitted to excite astonishment; things that surpass what man could have anticipated; things that could have been done only by God.
And thy thoughts which are to us-ward - Toward us; or which pertain to us. The word “thoughts” here refers to the plans, purposes, arrangements of God designed for our welfare; the things that are the result of his thinking of our wants - of what we need - of what would do us good. See Psalms 40:17.
They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee - Margin, “None can order them unto thee.” Literally, “There is no putting them in order before thee;” that is, there is no such arranging of them, or disposing of them in order, that they can all be brought into their proper place, so as to be perceived or numbered. The Hebrew word - ערך ‛ârak - means properly, to place in a row; to put in order; to arrange; as, to put an army in battle array, or to draw it up for battle, Judges 20:20, Judges 20:22; to put words in order for an argument, or to arrange thoughts so as to present an argument, Job 32:14; to set a cause in order before a judge, or to lay it before him, Job 13:18. The word also means to place together with anything, or by the side of anything - that is, to make a comparison. Gesenius (Lexicon) supposes that this is the idea here, and that the proper interpretation is, “Nothing can be compared unto thee.” But the other interpretation seems best to accord with the connection, as referring to the wonderful works of God, and to his thoughts of mercy and goodness as being beyond the power of computation, or as too numerous to be brought into order and arrangement before the mind.
If I would declare and speak of them - If I should attempt to speak of them; or to recount them.
They are more than can be numbered - More than man can enumerate. They go beyond the power of language to express them. This is literally true. No language of man can describe what God has done and has purposed in fitting up this world as an abode for people, and in his mercy toward them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 40:5. Many - are thy wonderful works — The psalmist seems here astonished and confounded at the counsels, loving-kindnesses, and marvellous works of the Lord, not in nature, but in grace; for it was the mercy of God towards himself that he had now particularly in view.
