Psalms, 40

1. [For the choirmaster Of David Psalm] I waited, I waited for Yahweh, then he stooped to me and heard my cry for help.

1. <To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.> I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

2. He pulled me up from the seething chasm, from the mud of the mire. He set my feet on rock, and made my footsteps firm.

2. He 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.

3. He put a fresh song in my mouth, praise of our God. Many will be awestruck at the sight, and will put their trust in Yahweh.

3. And 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.

4. How blessed are those who put their trust in Yahweh, who have not sided with rebels and those who have gone astray in falsehood.

4. Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

5. How much you have done, Yahweh, my God -- your wonders, your plans for us -- you have no equal. I will proclaim and speak of them; they are beyond number.

5. Many, 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.

6. You wanted no sacrifice or cereal offering, but you gave me an open ear, you did not ask for burnt offering or sacrifice for sin;

6. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

7. then I said, 'Here I am, I am coming.' In the scroll of the book it is written of me,

7. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,

8. my delight is to do your will; your law, my God, is deep in my heart.

8. I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.

9. I proclaimed the saving justice of Yahweh in the great assembly. See, I will not hold my tongue, as you well know.

9. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

10. I have not kept your saving justice locked in the depths of my heart, but have spoken of your constancy and saving help. I have made no secret of your faithful and steadfast love, in the great assembly.

10. I 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.

11. You, Yahweh, have not withheld your tenderness from me; your faithful and steadfast love will always guard me.

11. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

12. For troubles surround me, until they are beyond number; my sins have overtaken me; I cannot see my way. They outnumber the hairs of my head, and my heart fails me.

12. For 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.

13. Be pleased, Yahweh, to rescue me, Yahweh, come quickly and help me!

13. Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

14. Shame and dismay to all who seek to take my life. Back with them, let them be humiliated who delight in my misfortunes.

14. Let 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.

15. Let them be aghast with shame, those who say to me, 'Aha, aha!'

15. Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

16. But joy and happiness in you to all who seek you! Let them ceaselessly cry, 'Great is Yahweh' who love your saving power.

16. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

17. Poor and needy as I am, the Lord has me in mind. You, my helper, my Saviour, my God, do not delay.

17. But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.