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Salmos 40

BLIVRE · Chapter 40/150

1Salmo de Davi, para o regente: Esperei com esperança no SENHOR, e ele se inclinou a mim, e ouviu o meu clamor.

2Ele me tirou de uma cova de tormento, de um lamaceiro de barro; e pôs os meus pés sobre uma rocha; ele firmou meus passos.

3E pôs em minha boca uma canção nova, um louvor para nosso Deus: muitos [o] verão, e temerão, e confiarão no SENHOR.

4Bem-aventurado [é] o homem que põe no SENHOR sua confiança; e não dá atenção aos arrogantes e aos que caminham em direção à mentira.

5Tu, SENHOR meu Deus, multiplicaste para conosco tuas maravilhas e teus planos; eles não podem ser contados em ordem diante de ti; se eu [tentasse] contá-los e falá-los, eles são muito mais do que incontáveis.

6Tu não te agradaste de sacrifício e oferta; [porém] tu me furaste as orelhas; tu não pediste nem holocausto nem oferta de expiação do pecado.

7Então eu disse: Eis que venho; no rolo do livro está escrito sobre mim.

8Meu Deus, eu desejo fazer a tua vontade; e tua Lei está no meio dos meus sentimentos.

9Eu anuncio a justiça na grande congregação; eis que não retenho meus lábios; tu, SENHOR sabes [disso] .

10Eu não escondo tua justiça no meio de meu coração; eu declaro tua fidelidade e tua salvação; não escondo tua bondade e tua verdade na grande congregação.

11Tu, SENHOR, não detenhas para comigo tuas misericórdias; tua bondade e tua fidelidade me guardem continuamente.

12Porque inúmeros males me cercaram; minhas maldades me prenderam, e eu não pude as ver; elas são muito mais do que os cabelos de minha cabeça, e meu coração me desamparou.

13Seja agradável para ti, SENHOR, tu me livrares; SENHOR, apressa-te ao meu socorro.

14Envergonhem-se, e sejam juntamente humilhados os que buscam a minha alma para a destruírem; tornem-se para trás e sejam envergonhados os que querem o meu mal.

15Sejam eles assolados como pagamento de sua humilhação, os que dizem de mim: “Ha-ha!”

16Fiquem contentes e se alegrem-se em ti todos aqueles que te buscam; digam continuamente os que amam tua salvação: Engrandecido seja o SENHOR!

17E eu [estou] miserável e necessitado; [mas] o SENHOR cuida de mim; tu [és] meu socorro e meu libertador; Deus meu, não demores.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

David celebrates being lifted out of a 'horrible pit' of mire and given a new song to sing, declares that God prefers obedience over sacrifices, and closes with an urgent plea for help amid new troubles.

Explanation

The psalm has two distinct parts: praise for a past deliverance (v.1-10) and an urgent plea for help in the present (v.11-17), showing how a life of faith alternates between gratitude for past victories and renewed need for rescue. The phrase 'sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire... lo, I come' is quoted in Hebrews 10:5-7 as a prophetic reference to Christ's willingness to fulfill God's will beyond religious rituals. Today's application: sincere obedience is worth more than empty religious rituals, and it is legitimate to bring God both gratitude for the past and urgent requests for the present in the very same moment of prayer.

Fun facts

  • Verses 6-8 are quoted in Hebrews 10:5-7 and applied to Christ, who came to do God's will 'in the volume of the book' — one of the most direct connections between a Davidic psalm and the theology of Jesus's sacrifice.
  • The closing verses of this psalm (13-17) reappear almost identically as an independent psalm, Psalm 70, suggesting that portions of psalms could circulate separately before being compiled into the final collection.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Salmos 40:1Opens the psalm with a testimony of patient waiting: the answer wasn’t instant, but it came, with God bending down to hear the cry.
  2. Salmos 40:2Describes the rescue with a very physical image: pulled out of a horrible pit full of mud that trapped his feet, and set on a firm rock where his steps gain security.
  3. Salmos 40:3The result of this rescue is a new song, and this testimony doesn’t stay hidden: other people will see and, because of it, will also come to trust in God.
  4. Salmos 40:4Declares happy whoever places their trust in God, in contrast to whoever pays attention to the proud or those who turn aside to lies.
  5. Salmos 40:5Describes an impossible attempt: trying to count all of God’s wonders and thoughts is like trying to count something beyond any number that exists.
  6. Salmos 40:6This phrase is puzzling even in the original Hebrew: it may point to the custom of piercing the ear of a servant who chose to keep serving his master out of love, not obligation. That’s why the idea of voluntary obedience appears right after.
  7. Salmos 40:7A response of total availability: “Lo, I come”, as though his own life were already written beforehand in a book, a verse Hebrews later applies to Christ.
  8. Salmos 40:8Describes obedience not as a burden, but as genuine delight, with God’s law kept within his heart, not just memorized on the outside.
  9. Salmos 40:9Describes a commitment to proclaiming righteousness publicly, without keeping silent or holding back his lips before the assembly.
  10. Salmos 40:10Reinforces the same commitment: faithfulness, salvation, kindness, and truth, all of it announced publicly, hiding nothing from the assembly.
  11. Salmos 40:11After so much proclaiming God’s faithfulness, he asks that this same mercy keep being his constant guard, never withdrawn.
  12. Salmos 40:12Counting his own sins like strands of hair is hyperbole to describe a feeling of being completely buried under guilt, unable even to see the path ahead.
  13. Salmos 40:13Shifts tone, from a testimony of gratitude to an urgent plea for help, almost identical to the opening of Psalm 70, which repeats this same appeal.
  14. Salmos 40:14Asks that the enemies seeking to destroy his life be put to shame and forced to retreat, the common pattern of poetic justice in laments.
  15. Salmos 40:15Asks that whoever mocks him with jeers of scorn receive back, in the form of desolation, the same size of the insult they caused.
  16. Salmos 40:16Draws the expected contrast: while asking desolation for the mockers, he wishes constant joy for whoever seeks God and loves the salvation He offers.
  17. Salmos 40:17Closes the psalm with honest humility: even poor and needy, he knows God cares for him, and ends by asking that this help not delay.

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