Psalms 40 · Verse 8

Psalms 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Psalms 40:8, King James Version

Psalms 40:8 in other translations

BSB	I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
WEB	I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
ASV	I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
YLT	To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.
DARBY	To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.
BBE	My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
Webster	I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

What does Psalms 40:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 40:6-8

6-8. In Paul's view this passage has more meaning than the mere expression of grateful devotion to God's service. He represents Christ as declaring that the sacrifices, whether vegetable or animal, general or special expiatory offerings, would not avail to meet the demands of God's law, and that He had come to render the required satisfaction, which he states was effected by "the offering of the body of Christ" [He…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 8 To do thy will - God willed not the sacrifices under the law, but he willed that a human victim of infinite merit should be offered for the redemption of mankind. That there might be such a victim, a body was prepared for the eternal Logos, and in that body he came to do the will of God; that is, to suffer and die for the sins of the world. 1. Hence we see that the sovereign Will of God is that Jesus should be incarnated; that he should suffer and die; or, in the apostle's words, taste death for every man; that all should believe on him, and be saved from their sins; for this is the Will of God, our sanctification. 2. And as the apostle grounds this on the words of the Psalm, we see that it is the Will of God that that system shall end; for as the essence of it is contained in its sacrifices, and God says he will not have these, and has appointed the Messiah to do his will, i.e., to die for men, hence it necessarily follows, from the psalmist himself, that the introduction of the Messiah into the world is the abolition of the law; and that his sacrifice is that which shall last for ever.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 40:6-10

The psalmist foretells that work of wonder, redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ. The Substance must come, which is Christ, who must bring that glory to God, and that grace to man, which it was impossible the sacrifices should ever do. Observe the setting apart of our Lord Jesus to the work and office of Mediator. In the volume, or roll, of the book it was written of him. In the close rolls of the Divine decrees and…

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Psalms 40:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לַֽעֲשֽׂוֹת\־la.'a.sot-to doH6213

רְצוֹנְךָ֣re.tzon.Khawill yourH7522

אֱלֹהַ֣י'e.lo.HaiO God myH430

חָפָ֑צְתִּיcha.Fa.tze.tiI desireH2654

וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗ve.To.ra.te.khaand law yourH8451

בְּת֣וֹךְbe.Tokh[is] in [the] midst ofH8432

מֵעָֽי\׃me.'Aiinward parts myH4578

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Cross references for Psalms 40:8

Romans 7:22
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Jeremiah 15:16
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.
Psalms 119:16
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Psalms 119:24
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Psalms 37:30-31
The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Psalms 119:47
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Psalms 119:92
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Psalms 112:1
Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
2 Corinthians 3:3
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I delight.
112:1; 119:16,24,47,92; Job 23:12; Jer 15:16; Joh 4:34; Ro 7:22
Ro 8:29
yea.
37:30,31; Pr 3:1; Jer 31:33; 2Co 3:3
within my heart. Heb. in the midst of my bowels.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Psalms 40:7
Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms 40:9
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

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Psalms 40:8 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	El hacer tu voluntad, Dios mío, hame agradado; y tu ley está en medio de mis entrañas.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Alors j’ai dit: Voici, je viens; il est écrit de moi dans le rouleau du livre.
German Elberfelder 1871	Dein Wohlgefallen zu tun, mein Gott, ist meine Lust; und dein Gesetz ist im Innern meines Herzens.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	In idipsum adversum me susurrabant omnes inimici mei; adversum me cogitabant mala mihi.