Psalms 40:2

“He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, etc.] 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 crucifixion, and his lying in “sheol”, the pit or grave, sometimes rendered hell, which these figurative phrases fitly signify; when it is observed, that he was made sin, and had the sins of all his people on him; and, as the type of Joshua, was clothed with their filthy garments; he might be truly said to be in the miry clay; and also that he was made a curse for them, and bore the wrath of God in their room and stead; and was forsaken by his God and Father, and so endured both the punishment of loss…”

“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 Psalms 28:1; Psalms 30:4; Psalms 88:4; Isaiah 38:18; Isaiah 14:19. It may refer to any calamity - or to trouble, like being in a pit - or it may refer to the grave. The word rendered “horrible” - שׁאון shâ'ôn - means properly “noise, uproar, tumult,” as of waters; of a crowd of men; of war. Then it seems to be used in the sense of “desolation” or “destruction,” as applicable to the grave. DeWette understands it here of a pit, a cavern, or an abyss that roars or is tumultuous; that is, that is…”

“Pit - Desperate dangers and calamities. Rock - A place of strength and safety. Established - Kept me from falling into mischief. Psalms 40:3”

“brought: Psa 18:16, Psa 18:17, Psa 71:20, Psa 86:13, Psa 116:3, Psa 142:6, Psa 142:7, Psa 143:3; Isa 24:22; Jon 2:5, Jon 2:6; Zac 9:11; Act 2:24, Act 2:27-31 horrible pit: Heb. pit of noise, Mat 13:50 the miry: Psa 69:2, Psa 69:14, Psa 69:15; Jer 38:6-12; Lam 3:53-55 set: Psa 27:5, Psa 61:2; Mat 7:24, Mat 7:25 established: Psa 17:5, Psa 18:36, Psa 37:23, Psa 119:133 Psalms 40:3”