Psa 40 | Jub | STEP | <<To the Overcomer, A Psalm of David.>> I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry.

Psalms 40

1 <> I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of the pit of hopelessness, out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock [and] straightened my steps. 3 And he has put a new song in my mouth, [even] praise unto our God; many shall see [it] and fear and shall wait on the LORD. 4 Blessed [is] that man that makes the LORD his trust and does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 5 Thou hast increased, O LORD my God, thy wonderful works [which] thou hast done and thy thoughts regarding us; they are beyond our ability to express, declare, or speak; they cannot be told. 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required. 7 Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book [it is] written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law [is] within my bowels. 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; behold, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy truth and thy salvation; I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation. 11 Do not withhold thy tender mercies from me, O LORD; let thy mercy and thy truth continually preserve me. 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to see; they are more than the hairs of my head; therefore my heart fails me. 13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me. 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee; let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. 17 When I [am] poor and needy; the Lord will remember me; thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.: