Psalm 40 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ {\b For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.}\par\par\tab I waited patiently for Jehovah;\par\tab And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

² He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay;\par\tab And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

³ And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:\par\tab Many shall see it, and fear,\par\tab And shall trust in Jehovah.

⁴ Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust,\par\tab And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done,\par\tab And thy thoughts which are to us-ward;\par\tab They cannot be set in order unto thee;\par\tab If I would declare and speak of them,\par\tab They are more than can be numbered.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in;\par\tab Mine ears hast thou opened:\par\tab Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

⁷ Then said I, Lo, I am come;\par\tab In the roll of the book it is written of me:

⁸ I delight to do thy will, O my God;\par\tab Yea, thy law is within my heart.

⁹ I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly;\par\tab Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.

¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;\par\tab I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation;\par\tab I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great assembly.

¹¹ Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah;\par\tab Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

¹² For innumerable evils have compassed me about;\par\tab Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;\par\tab They are more than the hairs of my head;\par\tab And my heart hath failed me.

¹³ Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me:\par\tab Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.

¹⁴ Let them be put to shame and confounded together\par\tab That seek after my soul to destroy it:\par\tab Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor\par\tab That delight in my hurt.

¹⁵ Let them be desolate by reason of their shame\par\tab That say unto me, Aha, aha.

¹⁶ Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:\par\tab Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified.

¹⁷ But I am poor and needy;\par\tab {\i Yet} the Lord thinketh upon me:\par\tab Thou art my help and my deliverer;\par\tab Make no tarrying, O my God.\par