¹I waited patiently for the LORD .

He turned to me, and heard my cry.

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

out of the miry clay.

He set my feet on a rock,

and gave me a firm place to stand.

³He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.

Many shall see it , and fear, and shall trust in the LORD .

⁴Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,

and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies .

⁵Many , LORD , my God , are the wonderful works which you have done ,

and your thoughts which are towards us .

They can ’t be declared back to you .

If I would declare and speak of them , they are more than can be counted.

⁶Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.

You have opened my ears.

You have not required burnt offering and sin offering .

⁷Then I said, “Behold , I have come.

It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

⁸I delight to do your will , my God.

Yes , your law is within my heart.”

⁹I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.

Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD , you know.

¹⁰I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart .

I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.

I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly .

¹¹Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me , LORD .

Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me .

¹²For innumerable evils have surrounded me .

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

They are more than the hairs of my head.

My heart has failed me .

¹³Be pleased, LORD , to deliver me .

Hurry to help me , LORD .

¹⁴Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it .

Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt.

¹⁵Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me , “Aha! Aha!”

¹⁶Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you .

Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”

¹⁷But I am poor and needy.

May the Lord think about me .

You are my help and my deliverer.

Don’t delay, my God .