Psalms 40

¹I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.SelectedPsalms 40:1CopyShareAsk

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

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 the LORD.SelectedPsalms 40:3CopyShareAsk

⁴Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.SelectedPsalms 40:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.SelectedPsalms 40:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.SelectedPsalms 40:6CopyShareAsk

⁷Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,SelectedPsalms 40:7CopyShareAsk

⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.SelectedPsalms 40:8CopyShareAsk

⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.SelectedPsalms 40:9CopyShareAsk

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 congregation.SelectedPsalms 40:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.SelectedPsalms 40:11CopyShareAsk

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

¹³Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.SelectedPsalms 40:13CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedPsalms 40:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.SelectedPsalms 40:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.SelectedPsalms 40:16CopyShareAsk

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.SelectedPsalms 40:17CopyShareAsk