¹I waited patiently for the LORD ;

And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

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.

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;

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 lovingkindness,

And thy truth from the great congregation.

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

Let thy lovingkindness 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.