Psalm 40

Revised Geneva Translation

40 I waited patiently for the LORD, and He inclined to me and heard my cry.

² Also, He brought me out of the horrible pit—out of the miry clay—and set my feet upon the rock and ordered my goings.

³ And He has put in my mouth a new song of praise to our God. Many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the LORD.

⁴ Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust and does not regard the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

⁵ You have made many, O LORD my God, Your wonderful works; so that no one can count to You, in order, Your thoughts toward us. I would declare and speak of them, but they are more than I am able to express.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire (my ears You have prepared). Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

⁷ Then I said, “Lo, I come. In the roll of the Book it is written of me.

⁸ “I desired to do Your good will, O my God. Indeed, Your Law is within my heart.”

⁹ I have declared righteousness in the great congregation. Lo, I will not refrain my lips. O LORD, You know.

¹⁰ I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart. I have declared Your truth and Your salvation. I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great Congregation.

¹¹ Do not withdraw Your tender mercy from me, O LORD. Let Your mercy and Your truth always preserve me.

¹² For innumerable troubles have surrounded me. My sins have taken such hold upon me that I am not able to look up. They are more in number than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart has failed me.

¹³ Let it please You, O LORD, to deliver me. Hurry, O LORD, to help me.

¹⁴ Let those who seek my soul to destroy it be confounded and put to shame together. Let those who desire my hurt be driven backward and put to rebuke.

¹⁵ Let those who say to me, “Aha! Aha!” be destroyed as a reward for their shame,

¹⁶ Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You, and let those who love Your salvation, say always, “The LORD be praised!”

¹⁷ Though I be poor and needy, the LORD thinks on me. You are my Helper and my Deliverer. My God, do not delay. To him who excels: A Psalm of David.