PS-40:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited

patiently for the

LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

PS-40:2 He 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.

PS-40:3 And 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.

PS-40:4 Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust,

and respecteth

not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

PS-40:5 Many, 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.

PS-40:6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears

hast thou

opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

PS-40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it

is] written of

me,

PS-40:8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is]

within my heart.

PS-40:9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:

lo, I have

not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

PS-40:10 I 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.

PS-40:11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD:

let thy

lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

PS-40:12 For 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.

PS-40:13 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste

to help me.

PS-40:14 Let 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.

PS-40:15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that

say unto me,

Aha, aha.

PS-40:16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in

thee: let such as

love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

PS-40:17 But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon

me: thou

[art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

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