Psalm 40

Praise for Deliverance

¹I waited patiently for the Lord ;

and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,

out of the miry clay,

and set my feet upon a rock,

and established my goings.

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 .

⁴Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust,

and respecteth not the proud,

nor such as turn aside to lies.

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.

⁶Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;[#Heb 10.5-7.]

mine ears hast thou opened:

burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

⁷Then said I, Lo, I come:

in the volume of the book it is written of me,

⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God:

yea, thy law is within my heart.

⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:

lo, I have not refrained my lips,

O Lord , thou knowest.

¹⁰I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;

I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:

I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth

from the great congregation.

¹¹Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord :

let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

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.

¹³Be pleased, O Lord , to deliver me:

O Lord , make haste to help me.

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.

¹⁵Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame

that say unto me, Aha, aha.

¹⁶Let all those that seek thee

rejoice and be glad in thee:

let such as love thy salvation

say continually, The Lord be magnified.

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.