Psalm 40

¹I waited patiently for the LORD.

He turned to me, and heard my cry.

²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,

out of the miry clay.

He set my feet on a rock,

and gave me a firm place to stand.

³He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.

Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

⁴Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,

and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

⁵Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,

and your thoughts which are towards us.

They can’t be declared back to you.

If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.

⁶Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.

You have opened my ears.

You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

⁷Then I said, “Behold, I have come.

It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

⁸I delight to do your will, my God.

Yes, your Torah is within my heart.”

⁹I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.

Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.

¹⁰I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.

I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.

I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

¹¹Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD.

Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

¹²For innumerable evils have surrounded me.

My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.

They are more than the hairs of my head.

My heart has failed me.

¹³Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me.

Hurry to help me, LORD.

¹⁴Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.

Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt.

¹⁵Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

¹⁶Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.

Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”

¹⁷But I am poor and needy.

May the Lord think about me.

You are my help and my deliverer.

Don’t delay, my God.