Psalms 40:2

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit,.... Which, with the following phrase,

out of the miry clay, expresses the state and condition Christ was in at the time of his bloody sweat, his…

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit - Margin: “A pit of noise.” The word used here means a pit; a cistern; a prison; a dungeon; a grave. This last signification of the word is found in Psa…

In these verses we have,

I. The great distress and trouble that the psalmist had been in. He had been plunged into a horrible pit and into miry clay (Psa 40:2), out of which he could not work himself,…

And brought me up out of a pit of destruction, out of the miry slough:

And set my feet upon a rock, made firm my steps.

A literal reference to Jeremiah's imprisonment in the dungeon can hardly be…