Psalms 40

God’s Faithfulness and Deliverance

¹I waited patiently for Yahweh,

And he inclined to me

and heard my cry for help.

²And so he brought me up from the roaring pit,[#Some read “pit of destruction”]

from the miry clay.

And he put my feet upon a rock;

he made my steps steady.

³Then he put a new song in my mouth,

a praise to our God.

Many will see and fear,

and will trust Yahweh.

⁴Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust

and does not turn to the proud and to those who fall away to a lie.

⁵Many things, O Yahweh my God, you have done—

your wonderful deeds and your thoughts toward us.

There is none to compare with you.

If I tried to proclaim and tell of them,

they would be too numerous to count.

⁶A sacrifice and offering you do not desire.

My ears you have opened.

Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.

⁷Then I said, “Look, I come.

In the scroll of the book

it is written concerning me:

⁸‘I delight to do your will, O my God,

and your law is deep within me.’ ”

⁹I have brought good tidings of righteousness in the great congregation.

Look, I have not shut my lips.

O Yahweh, you surely know that.

¹⁰Your righteousness I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.

I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation.

I have not concealed your loyal love or your faithfulness

from the great congregation.

¹¹As for you, O Yahweh, do not withhold your mercies from me.

Let your loyal love and your faithfulness

continually preserve me.

¹²For evils without number have encompassed me.

My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see.

They are more than the hairs of my head,

and my heart fails me.

¹³Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me.

O Yahweh, hurry to help me.

¹⁴Let them be shamed and abashed altogether

who seek to take away my life.

Let them be repulsed and humiliated

who desire my harm.

¹⁵Let them be appalled because of their shame,

those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!”

¹⁶Let them rejoice and be glad in you,

all those who seek you.

Let them say continually, “Yahweh is great!”

—those who love your salvation.

¹⁷But I am poor and needy.

Let my Lord consider me.

You are my help and my deliverer.

O my God, do not delay.