To the chief musician, a psalm of David
40
📚✭I waited patiently✭for the LORD,
and he bent down to me
and heard my cry.
2 📚He also brought me up
out of a horrible pit✭,
out of the miry clay,
and set my feet on a rock✭,
and established
my steps.
3 📚✭And he put a new song
in my mouth,
praise to our God.
Many will see it
and fear,
and will trust in the LORD.
4 📚✭Blessed is that man
who makes the LORD his trust,
and does not respect the proud,
or turn aside to lies✭.
5 📚Many, O LORD my God,
are your wonderful
works✭
which you have done,
and your thoughts toward us.
They cannot be recounted
to you in order.
If I would declare
and speak of them,
they are more than can be
numbered.
6 📚✭Sacrifice and offering
you did not desire;
my ears you have opened.
Burnt offering and sin offering
you did not require.
7 📚✭Then I said, “Look, I come.
In the book’s scroll
it is written of me.
8 📚✭I delight to do your will,
O my God.
Yes, your law is within
my heart.
9 📚✭I have proclaimed righteousness
in the great congregation.
See, I have not restrained my lips;
O LORD, you know.
10 📚I have not hidden your righteousness
in my heart.
I have declared your faithfulness
and your salvation.
I have not concealed your loving
kindness and your truth from the
great congregation.
11 📚Do not withhold your tender
mercies from me, O LORD.
Let your loving kindness and your truth
continually preserve me.
12 📚✭For innumerable evils have
surrounded me.
My sins have overtaken me,
so that I am not able to look up.
They are more than the hairs
of my head;
therefore my heart fails me.
13 📚Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me!
O LORD, come quickly to help me!
14 📚Let those who seek my soul
to destroy it be put to disgrace
and confusion together.
Let those who wish evil for me be
driven backward and put to shame.
15 📚Let those who say to me “Aha, aha!”
be appalled at their disgrace.
16 📚✭Let all those who seek you rejoice
and be glad in you.
Let those who love your salvation
say continually,
“The LORD be exalted”.
17 📚But I am poor and needy.
Yet the Lord thinks of me.
You are my help and
my deliverer.
Do not delay, O my God.