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King David discovered a key to experiencing joy amid the most challenging times of life by remembering God’s past deliverance from trouble. We don’t know the exact details of David’s ordeal in Psalm 40, but he compares it to being stuck in a horrifying pit filled with mud and mire:
“I waited patiently for the LORD;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps” (Psalm 40:1–2, NKJV).
If you’ve ever been stuck in quicksand or stood on the soft ocean shore as your feet sank deeper into the sand with each wave, you know the feeling of being caught in the staggering helplessness of miry clay. Mire is deep, soft mud in water or slush, like wet loam or potter’s clay. The Hebrew term in Psalm 40:2 is translated as “miry bog” (ESV), “mud and mire” (NIV), and “muddy clay” (CSB).
David wants to convey the idea of being desperately trapped in abysmally dark circumstances. David’s metaphor reminds us of Jeremiah’s actual imprisonment in a muddy cistern (Jeremiah 38:7–13) and Joseph’s entrapment by his brothers in a pit (Genesis 37:18–22). On his own, David is powerless to escape. The only thing he can do is wait patiently for the Lord to rescue him. David may have been speaking of the same excruciating episode in Psalm 69:2: “Deeper and deeper I sink into the mire; I can’t find a foothold. I am in deep water, and the floods overwhelm me” (NLT).
David’s pit of miry clay could be symbolic of any number of distressing times he endured. Perhaps it was the crater of depression and rejection he experienced due to King Saul’s murderous jealously and hatred (1 Samuel 18:10–17; 23:15–29). Maybe it was the time his son Absolom led a conspiracy and rebellion against him (2 Samuel 15:1—18:33). It might have been the pit David dug for himself through his sinful affair with Bethsheba and then the slaying of her husband (2 Samuel 11:1–27).
Whatever the pit may have been, David has learned in times of trouble to cry out to the Lord: “Rescue me from the miry mud; don’t let me sink. Let me be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep water” (Psalm 69:14, CSB). As he trusts in the Lord and calls on God for help, David’s Redeemer hears and answers (Psalm 56:9–11; 121:1–2).
“He brought me out of the miry clay,” testifies David. The Lord delivers him by pulling him up and out of his horrible ordeal. “You brought me up from the grave, O LORD,” utters David in Psalm 30:3, “You kept me from falling into the pit of death” (NLT). “He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me,” declares David in Psalm 18:19. What David cannot do for himself, the Lord accomplishes (see Ephesians 3:20; Luke 18:27). God sets David’s feet on a solid, secure rock and establishes his steps (Psalm 27:5; 37:23; 62:2).
He brought me out of the miry clay is also a picture of Jesus Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection and the resulting salvation believers experience through Him. When Jesus Christ died, He was buried in the grave. Crucifixion was a truly “horrible pit” as the spotless Lamb of God took all the transgressions of humankind on His sinless body (Isaiah 53:4–5; 1 John 3:5).
But, thanks be to God, our Savior did not stay in the pit. “God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him” (Acts 2:24; see also Hebrews 5:7). He was brought “out of the miry clay.” Christ is alive now and lives forever. The apostle Peter explains, “He suffered for our sins once for all time. He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God. He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit” (1 Peter 3:18, NLT).
Jesus Christ was raised to life, never to die again. His work of redemption is complete. We were destined to die, but through His marvelous salvation, He brought us out of the miry clay. He set our feet upon a rock, and like David, He put a new song of praise to God in our mouths (Psalm 96:1; 149:1).
Psalm 40 begins with a song of thanksgiving and transitions into a cry for help. David declares his trust in God to deliver him out of his trouble just as the Lord has done in the past: “He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure” (Psalm 40:2, ESV).
David’s situation had been so dire and dangerous that he describes it as a “pit of destruction,” “the slimy pit” (NIV), or “the pit of despair” (NLT). He was stuck so deep in the “miry bog” (ESV), or “mud and mire” (NLT) that, on his own, David was powerless to get free. But when he called on the Lord for help, God intervened, rescuing David. He pulled David up out of the desolate pit of engulfing quicksand and set his feet upon a rock.
In contrast to slippery, inescapable mud and mire, a rock is solid ground, firm and unmovable. With his feet set upon a rock, David stood in a place of safety, stability, and security. In Psalm 18:2–3, David depicts the Lord Himself as “my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies” (ESV).
David’s imagery in Psalm 40:2 is a picture of our salvation in Jesus Christ, who is the “Cornerstone,” the “sure foundation,” and “Rock of Salvation” for all who put their faith and trust in Him (Isaiah 28:16–17; Psalm 118:21–23; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:4–8). Before salvation, we are like David in the pit, bound by sin in a prison of despair and headed for death and destruction in hell (Isaiah 61:1; Galatians 3:22–23; John 8:34). But after salvation, we are like David with his feet set upon a rock. We can declare with David, “You brought me up from the grave, O Lord. You kept me from falling into the pit of death” (Psalm 30:3, NLT).
The Bible portrays sinful living as a slippery slope that leads to disaster and eventual death. Caught in spiritual mud and mire, we live “in this world without God and without hope” (Ephesians 2:12, NLT). We cannot free ourselves from the pit of sin (Romans 3:10–18; 6:23; Ephesians 2:8–9). Thankfully, God, in His great love and mercy, chose to reach down into the slimy cesspit “while we were still sinners” and send His Son to die for us (Romans 5:8; see also John 3:16).
When we call upon the name of the Lord, Jesus saves us (Romans 10:13; Acts 2:21). He frees “captives from prison, releasing those who sit in dark dungeons (Isaiah 42:7, NLT; see also Isaiah 61:1; Galatians 5:1; Ephesians 4:8). He delivers us from our muddy, sin-filled past and transforms us into shining new creations in Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 5:17). His life becomes the solid bedrock upon which we build our new lives (Matthew 7:24–29; 16:13–20). He “makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him” (Psalm 37:23) and “safeguards the steps of his faithful ones” (1 Samuel 2:9, GW).
When God sets our feet on the rock of Jesus Christ, He promises us, “When you walk, you won’t be held back; when you run, you won’t stumble” (Proverbs 4:12, NLT). Our lives and futures are secure in Him (Romans 10:11; 1 Peter 2:6). God, our Father, takes hold of us for all eternity, keeping us safe and secure in His grip (John 10:28–29).
Mud (muck) is water-soaked soil that creates mushy, slippery, messy terrain. Mire is a swampy, low-lying wetland that sinks deep underfoot. Both mud and mire describe ground that is troublesome and difficult to traverse. One can quickly get stuck in mud and mire.
Mud and mire are common metaphors for difficult, embarrassing, or ensnaring circumstances that are hard to extricate oneself from. God rescued King David from one such predicament:
“I waited patiently for the Lord;
he turned to me and heard my cry.
He lifted me out of the slimy pit,
out of the mud and mire;
he set my feet on a rock
and gave me a firm place to stand” (Psalm 40:1–2).
The “mud and mire” of David’s “slimy pit” probably refer to the conditions at the bottom of a cistern. Some in Scripture have had to deal with literal mud and mire: Jeremiah was captured and thrown into a muddy cistern, and “he sank down into the mud” (Jeremiah 38:6). Joseph’s brothers intended to kill Joseph and conceal his body in a deep, dark cistern (Genesis 37:20).
In Psalm 40, David felt trapped in a precariously hopeless situation—one so severe he could not escape on his own. We don’t know the circumstances of his trouble. Maybe he was like the character Christian in The Pilgrim’s Progress who, at the very beginning of his journey, tumbled into the Slough of Despond, described as “such a place as cannot be mended.” In Bunyan’s allegory, the mud and mire represent “the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin.” Christian could not get out of the slough on his own, but, thankfully, God sent a man named Help to give him a hand. (Bunyan, J., The Pilgrim’s Progress, New American Library, a div. of Penguin Books, 1981, p. 22–23).
To be caught in a pit of mud and mire corresponds to a time in life when we are so stuck we can’t free ourselves or escape on our own. Borrowing examples from David’s life, it could be the miserable prison of personal sin (see Psalm 40:12; cf. 2 Samuel 11), a deep hole of adversity (1 Samuel 18:10–17; 1 Samuel 23:15–29), family problems (2 Samuel 15—18), grief and emotional turmoil (2 Samuel 18:19–33), or even an actual cistern like the one Jeremiah endured.
David, Job, and many other Bible figures called on God to save them from the mud and mire (see Psalm 18:16; 69:1, 2, 14, 15; 144:7; Job 30:19–28). These events are beautiful illustrations of God rescuing His people from sin and trouble and establishing them instead on the firm foundation of Jesus Christ, the Rock of Salvation (see Deuteronomy 32:4; 2 Samuel 22:2; Psalm 62:7; 89:26; Matthew 7:24; 1 Corinthians 3:11; 10:4).
No matter the pit we find ourselves in, our good and gracious God will hear our cries for help. He will reach down into the metaphorical mud and mire of our distress, lift us out, and set our feet on solid bedrock—a place of security and stability. Instead of slipping in mud and sinking in mire, we can step securely in the Lord (Psalm 17:5; 18:36; 94:18).
Some Bible commentators associate David’s deliverance in Psalm 40:1–3 with Jesus Christ’s sacrificial death and resurrection. Jesus went into a pit of sin to save us; He was made sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 2:9). “He personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right” (1 Peter 2:24, NLT). Imagine how slimy that pit must have been to the perfect, spotless Lamb of God. But Jesus did not stay in the mud and mire. God heard His prayers (see Hebrews 5:7) and raised Him from the dead (Matthew 28:5–6; Acts 2:24, 32; 13:15, 30; Galatians 1:1; 1 Corinthians 15:3–4).
All who have been redeemed from the mud and mire of sin and troubling circumstances join in David’s joyous praise:
“He lifted me out of the pit of despair,
out of the mud and the mire.
He set my feet on solid ground
and steadied me as I walked along.
He has given me a new song to sing,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see what he has done and be amazed.
They will put their trust in the Lord” (Psalm 40:2–3, NLT).
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I love the Lord. He heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.
—Psalm 116:1-2
Understanding the Lord’s love, presence, and nearness should lead us to serve him and to deepen our relationship with him. While we love God for many reasons, we especially want to express our love to him today for his personal concern for us — individually for each of us! In a world where important people refuse to spend time with those they consider “beneath them,” we are truly blessed with an incomparable God who listens to our every cry, recognizes our distinct voice, and tunes his ear to hear every one of our whispers. Yes! I will call on the Lord! I will praise him, thank him, confess to him, and speak of him and his grace as long as I live!
Prayer
Father, you know each hair on my head and every thought in my heart. Thank you for hearing my prayers. Thank you for answering so many of them with the answer I sought from you. Please give me patience when I cannot see your hand in the other answers — those that do not come as soon or do not bear the result I had requested. I believe and trust that you are always near, working for my good even when I can’t see it or understand what is happening. I believe you always answer my prayers to your glory and for my best eternal interests. So please, dear Father, strengthen my faith so that I will never outlive my trust and faith in you. In the name of Jesus, I ask for this grace. Amen and Amen
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