Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 40:5

5. Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward : they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them , they are more than can be numbred .

For which I and the rest of thy People, included in the Pronoun plural, us, have abundant cause to Praise thee, and to trust in thee, as was said, v. 3. And by which it will appear, that he that trusteth in thee, is in a most Blessed and safe Condition▪ as he said, v 4. And this Verse, wherein he passeth from the singular Number to the plural, may seem to be interposed, as a Wall of Partition, between that which David speaks in his own Person, and that which he speaks in the Person of the Messias, in the following Verses.

(i. e.) Thy gracious Counsels or Contrivances.

(i. e.) To me and to the rest of thy People, with whom David oft joyns himself in this Book. But these Words may be, and are by some joyned to the following Words, and the place thus rendred. It is not with us, or, in our Power (i. e.) It passeth our skill (and reach) to order, or to reckon them up in Order unto thee, because indeed they are innumerable, and therefore cannot be digested into any order.

So the Particle if or when is wanting, and to be supplied here, as it is, Psal. 39. 11. and in many other places. Heb. Yet, I will declare and speak▪ to wit, some part of them: which accordingly he doth in the following Verses.

Although I am not able to express or Reckon them all.

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