For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.
David recalls how from many dangers, not one alone, he cried out to God and was heard. His deliverance from such perils filled his soul with admiration of God's providence, which extends to all mankind, and moved him to give himself wholly to God's service.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 40:1-17
For innumerable evils have compassed me about. On every side he was beset with evils; countless woes environed the great Substitute for our sins. Our sins were innumerable, and so were his griefs. There was no escape for us from our iniquities, and there was no escape for him from the woes which we deserved.
The psalmist, having meditated upon the work of redemption, and spoken of it in the person of the Messiah, now comes to make improvement of the doctrine of his mediation between us and God, and therefore speaks in his own person.
Commenting on Psalm 40:11-17