Teks -- Psalms 40:16 (NET)

40:16 May all those who seek you be happy and rejoice in you! May those who love to experience your deliverance say continually, “May the Lord be praised!”

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JFB: Psa 40:16

(Compare Psa 35:27).

JFB: Psa 40:16 - love thy salvation

Delight in its bestowal on others as well as themselves.

Clarke: Psa 40:16 - Let all those that seek thee - be glad

Let all those that seek thee - be glad - In making prayer and supplication to thee, let them ever find thee, that they may magnify thee for the blessings they receive

Clarke: Psa 40:16 - Love thy salvation

Love thy salvation - Who earnestly desire to be saved from sin: saved in thy own way, and on thy own terms

Clarke: Psa 40:16 - The Lord be magnified

The Lord be magnified - Let God be praised continually for the continual blessings he pours down.

Calvin: Psa 40:16 - Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee

16.Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee David here uses another argument — one which he often adduces elsewhere — in order to obtain deliverance; not that it is necessary to allege reasons to persuade God, but because it is profitable to confirm our faith by such supports. As, then, it is the will of God that he should be known in his gracious character, not only of one or two, but generality of all men, whenever he vouchsafes deliverance to any of his children, it is a common benefit which all the faithful ought to apply to themselves when they see in the person of one man in what manner God, who is never inconsistent with himself, will act towards all his people. David, therefore, shows that he asks nothing for himself individually but what pertains to the whole Church. He prays that God would gladden the hearts of all the saints, or afford them all common cause of rejoicing: so that, assured of his readiness to help them, they may have recourse to him with greater alacrity. Hence we conclude, that, in the case of every individual, God gives a proof of his goodness towards us. What is added, those that love thy salvation, is also worthy of being observed by us. We may infer from this, that our faith is only proved to be genuine when we neither expect nor desire preservation otherwise than from God alone. Those who devise various ways and means of preservation for themselves in this world, despise and reject the salvation which God has taught us to expect from him alone. What had been said before, those who seek thee, is to the same purpose. If any individual would depend wholly upon God, and desire to be saved by his grace, he must renounce every vain hope, and employ all his thoughts towards the reception of his strength. Here, again, we must observe that two things are contrasted with each other. Formerly David had said that the wicked sought his life; now he ascribes to the faithful quite a contrary feeling, namely, that they seek God. In like manner he had related the reproaches and derision of the ungodly, while they said, Aha, aha! and now he introduces the godly speaking very differently, saying, The Lord be magnified!

TSK: Psa 40:16 - all // love // say

all : Psa 22:26, Psa 35:27, Psa 68:3, Psa 105:3; Isa 65:13, Isa 65:14

love : Psa 119:81, Psa 119:111, Psa 119:123, Psa 119:166, Psa 119:167; Mat 13:45, Mat 13:46; Phi 3:7-9

say : Psa 35:27; Luk 1:46, Luk 1:47; Act 19:17

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Poole: Psa 40:16 - Such as love thy salvation

Such as love thy salvation either,

1. Such as desire and rejoice in the salvation and deliverance which thou givest to me and to others of thy people, which was a great eye-sore and grief to the wicked. Or,

2. Such as expect and seek for their salvation and happiness not from idols, nor from their wicked courses, nor from any creatures, as other men do, but from thee only, and gladly accept and embrace that salvation which thou hast promised, together with the conditions required to it, to wit, faith and repentance. Or,

3. Such as love thy Messias, upon whom both David’ s and other holy prophets’ and saints’ thoughts and affections were much fixed, as is evident from many places of Scripture, as Joh 8:58 Act 2:30,31 1Pe 1:10,11 ; who is called the desire of all nations , Hag 2:7 , and the glory and consolation of Israel , Luk 2:25,32 , yea, and by the very title here used, God’ s salvation , Isa 62:11 Luk 2:30 ; whose appearance or coming the godly of all ages did love and long for; and of whom David had so lately and clearly spoken, Psa 40:6,7 , &c.; all which considered, this cannot seem a forced or very far-fetched interpretation. The Lord be magnified : let them have continual occasion to magnify God for his mercies vouchsafed to them.

Gill: Psa 40:16 - Let all those that seek thee // rejoice and be glad in thee // let such as love thy salvation // say continually, the Lord be magnified

Let all those that seek thee,.... In the first place, with their whole hearts, earnestly and diligently, in Christ, and under the influences of his Spirit, for pardon, righteousness, communion, larger measures of grace, and for honour, glory, immortality, and eternal life;

rejoice and be glad in thee: as their covenant God, the Father of their mercies, the God of all comfort and salvation, who pardons their sins, clothes them with the robes of righteousness and garments of salvation, and accepts their persons in Christ; all which is matter of joy and gladness: Christ is concerned for the joy of his people, Joh 15:11; the Targum is, "they shall", or "let them rejoice, and be glad in thy word": in himself, the essential Word, in whom there is always ground and reason of joy and gladness; because of his person, blood, righteousness, and sacrifice;

let such as love thy salvation; either Christ, who is God's salvation, Gen 49:18; and who is loved by his people, universally, superlatively, and sincerely; or the salvation of him, his deliverance from the grave, resurrection from the dead, and exaltation; the benefits of which believers share in, and so have reason to love it: or the salvation he is the author of, which is loved by those that know it; partly because agreeable to the divine perfections, the glory of God is great in it; and partly because it is so full and complete in itself, and so suitable to them;

say continually, the Lord be magnified; let this be their constant employment in this world, as it will be for ever in the next, to ascribe greatness to God; or greatly to praise him, because of the great salvation wrought out for them.