Psalms 40

¹I waited patiently for Jehovah;

²He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay;

³And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:

⁴Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust,

⁵Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done,

⁶Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in;

⁷Then said I, Lo, I am come;

⁸I delight to do thy will, O my God;

⁹I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly;

¹⁰I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;

¹¹Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah;

¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about;

¹³Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me:

¹⁴Let them be put to shame and confounded together

¹⁵Let them be desolate by reason of their shame

¹⁶Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:

¹⁷But I am poor and needy;