The Psalms

Psalm 40

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

 ^40:1I waited patiently for Jehovah;

 And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

 ^40:2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay;

 And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

 ^40:3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:

 Many shall see it, and fear,

 And shall trust in Jehovah.

 ^40:4Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust,

 And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

 ^40:5Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done,

 And thy thoughts which are to us-ward;

 They cannot be set in order unto thee;

 If I would declare and speak of them,

 They are more than can be numbered.

 ^40:6Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in;

 Mine ears hast thou opened:

 Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

 ^40:7Then said I, Lo, I am come;

 In the roll of the book it is written of me:

 ^40:8I delight to do thy will, O my God;

 Yea, thy law is within my heart.

 ^40:9I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly;

 Lo, I will not refrain my lips,

 O Jehovah, thou knowest.

 ^40:10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;

 I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation;

 I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

 ^40:11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah;

 Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

 ^40:12For innumerable evils have compassed me about;

 Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;

 They are more than the hairs of my head;

 And my heart hath failed me.

 ^40:13Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me:

 Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.

 ^40:14Let them be put to shame and confounded together

 That seek after my soul to destroy it:

 Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor

 That delight in my hurt.

 ^40:15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame

 That say unto me, Aha, aha.

 ^40:16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:

 Let such as love thy salvation say continually,

 Jehovah be magnified.

 ^40:17But I am poor and needy;

 Yet the Lord thinketh upon me:

 Thou art my help and my deliverer;

 Make no tarrying, O my God.