{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day","title":"Psalm Chapter 40","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":174,"description":"Psalm 40: The New Song from the PitThe psalm begins with a completed rescue. \"I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock.\" The sequence matters: first the waiting, then the inclining, then the rescue, then — and only then — the new song. God does not merely pull David out of the mud; He gives him music about it. And this new song, David says, is itself an evangelistic act: \"Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.\" Then comes the turn that lifts the psalm from testimony to prophecy: \"Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened.\" What God wanted was never the smoke of burnt offerings but an opened ear, a willing heart, a life that says, \"Lo, I come.\" The author of Hebrews recognized this voice as belonging to Christ Himself. And yet the psalm does not end in triumph but in honest need: \"I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me.\" That small word \"yet\" carries the whole weight of faith — the admission of poverty and the confidence that one is not forgotten.00:00 Up from the Horrible Pit01:00 Not Sacrifice but Obedience02:00 Poor and Needy, Yet Remembered","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C2WseAXS5mwLSdrov_M_2jK4yq73Ie3qsXM5YHymD9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zYTI4/MzVhZWJjYTI1MDMy/ODg4MTI5NzlhMDg5/NmY2ZS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}