Psalm 40

¹  I waited patiently for Yahweh.
    He turned to me, and heard my cry.
² He 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.
³ He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
    Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.
⁴ Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
    and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
⁵ Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,
    and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can’t be declared back to you.
    If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
⁶ Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.
    You have opened my ears.
    You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
⁷ Then I said, “Behold, I have come.
    It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
⁸ I delight to do your will, my God.
    Yes, your law is within my heart.”
⁹ I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.
    Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
¹⁰ I 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.
¹¹ Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh.
    Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
¹² For 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.
¹³ Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me.
    Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
¹⁴ Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.
    Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
¹⁵ Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
¹⁶ Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
    Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”
¹⁷ But I am poor and needy.
    May the Lord think about me.
You are my help and my deliverer.
    Don’t delay, my God.

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