40Psalms 40

1I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.Select Psalms 40:1

2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.Select Psalms 40:2

3And he 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.Select Psalms 40:3

4Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.Select Psalms 40:4

5Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.Select Psalms 40:5

6Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.Select Psalms 40:6

7Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,Select Psalms 40:7

8I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.Select Psalms 40:8

9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.Select Psalms 40:9

10I have not hid 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 congregation.Select Psalms 40:10

11Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.Select Psalms 40:11

12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.Select Psalms 40:12

13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.Select Psalms 40:13

14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.Select Psalms 40:14

15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, Aha, aha.Select Psalms 40:15

16Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.Select Psalms 40:16

17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.Select Psalms 40:17