#### Psalms 40

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17}

^ Ps 40.1: (40.1) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. (40.2) I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
^ Ps 40.2: (40.3) 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.
^ Ps 40.3: (40.4) 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.
^ Ps 40.4: (40.5) Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
^ Ps 40.5: (40.6) 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.
^ Ps 40.6: (40.7) Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
^ Ps 40.7: (40.8) Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me,
^ Ps 40.8: (40.9) I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
^ Ps 40.9: (40.10) I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
^ Ps 40.10: (40.11) 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.
^ Ps 40.11: (40.12) Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
^ Ps 40.12: (40.13) 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.
^ Ps 40.13: (40.14) Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
^ Ps 40.14: (40.15) 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.
^ Ps 40.15: (40.16) Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
^ Ps 40.16: (40.17) Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
^ Ps 40.17: (40.18) 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.