The One Who Rescues Me

¹I hoped earnestly for Yahweh;[#40:1 Or intently]

And He inclined to me and heard my cry for help.

²He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,[#40:2 Lit mud of the mire]

And He set my feet upon a high rock, He established my steps.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;

Many will see and fear

And will trust in Yahweh.

⁴¶How blessed is the man who has made Yahweh his trust,

And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who stray into falsehood.

⁵Many, O Yahweh my God, are the wondrous deeds You have done,

And Your thoughts toward us;

There is none to compare with You.

I would declare and speak of them,

But they are too numerous to recount.

⁶¶Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;[#40:6 Blood sacrifice; #40:6 Or You have not taken pleasure in]

My ears You have opened;

Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

⁷Then I said, “Behold, I come;

In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

⁸“I desire to do Your will, O my God;

Your law is within my inner being.”

⁹¶I proclaim good news of righteousness in the great assembly;

Behold, I do not restrain my lips,

O Yahweh, You know.

¹⁰I do not conceal Your righteousness within my heart;

I speak of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;

I do not hide Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great assembly.

¹¹¶You, O Yahweh, will not withhold Your compassion from me;

Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually guard me.

¹²For evils beyond number have surrounded me;

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

They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,

And my heart has failed me.

¹³¶Be pleased, O Yahweh, to deliver me;

Make haste, O Yahweh, to help me.

¹⁴Let those be ashamed and humiliated together

Who seek my life to sweep it away;

Let those be turned back and dishonored

Who delight in evil against me.

¹⁵Let those be appalled because of their shame[#40:15 Or desolated]

Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

¹⁶Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;

Let those who love Your salvation say continually,

“Yahweh be magnified!”

¹⁷As for me, I am afflicted and needy,

May the Lord think of me.

You are my help and the One who rescues me;

Do not delay, O my God.