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Psa. 40:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For innumerableo evils have compassed me about: mine iniquitiesq have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look upr; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart νfaileth me.

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Heb. 4:15• ¹⁵For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart. (Heb. 4:15)

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Psa. 38:4• ⁴For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:4)

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Luke 18:13‑14• ¹³And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.
¹⁴I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than that other. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:13‑14)

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forsaketh.

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innumerable.

Psa. 22:11‑19• ¹¹Be not far from me, for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
¹²Many bulls have encompassed me; Bashan's strong ones have beset me round.
¹³They gape upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
¹⁴I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is become like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
¹⁵My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaveth to my palate; and thou hast laid me in the dust of death.
¹⁶For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
¹⁷I may count all my bones. They look, they stare upon me;
¹⁸They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
¹⁹But thou, Jehovah, be not far from me; O my strength, haste thee to help me. (Psa. 22:11‑19)

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Heb. 4:15• ¹⁵For we have not a high priest not able to sympathise with our infirmities, but tempted in all things in like manner, sin apart. (Heb. 4:15)

mine.

Psa. 38:4• ⁴For mine iniquities are gone over my head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. (Psa. 38:4)

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Isa. 53:6• ⁶All we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all. (Isa. 53:6)

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Luke 18:13‑14• ¹³And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, O God, have compassion on me, the sinner.
¹⁴I say unto you, This man went down to his house justified rather than that other. For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:13‑14)

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1 Peter 3:18• ¹⁸for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

they are.

Psa. 19:12• ¹²Who understandeth his errors? Purify me from secret faults. (Psa. 19:12)

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Psa. 69:4• ⁴They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. (Psa. 69:4)

heart.

Psa. 73:26• ²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever. (Psa. 73:26)

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Gen. 42:28• ²⁸And he said to his brethren, My money is returned to me, and behold, it is even in my sack. And their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another, What is this that God has done to us? (Gen. 42:28)

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Luke 21:26• ²⁶men ready to die through fear and expectation of what is coming on the habitable earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. (Luke 21:26)

faileth.

Heb. forsaketh.

• And without entering here on the ground of atonement, the governmental expression of the view God took of Israel's sin, in which the remnant had been involved, comes pressing on the soul of Christ, as it will really on the remnant. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 37-39” by J.N. Darby)

• As the result of His faithful witness He was opposed by those who, in their hatred, sought to destroy Him. (“Psalms 40” by H. Smith)

• It is God’s will that His people should be diverted through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ of everything unsuited to God. If this will is to be accomplished, Christ must bear the sins of His people. Here then we see Christ confessing the sins of His people as His own, and bearing the burden of them. (“Psalms 40” by H. Smith)

• {v.12-13} Confessing our sins as His own, the Lord could say, “Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up.” In this sore trial He became the perfect pattern for others, inasmuch as He looked only to the Lord to deliver and help Him. (“Psalms 40” by H. Smith)

• Nor does He fail in this to place Himself under the burden of evil and sins under which Israel had brought itself. (“Psalms 40” by H. Smith)

• Christ, who had been, as He states in this psalm, faithful to God in everything, enters into this sorrow in heavenly grace. It is not His own relationship to God, but His entering into the remnant's as connected with Israel. His own had been perfect {v.8}: theirs, though founded on Jehovah's faithfulness on one side, actually the fruit of sin. (“Psalms 40” by H. Smith)

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For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquitiesl have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot seem; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "my punishments." Gen. 19.15.

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Or "look at them."