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A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; And He inclined to me and heard my cry.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the LORD.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in the LORD.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You have multiplied, O LORD my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders which You have done, And Your thoughts toward us; There is none to compare with You. If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired; My ears You have opened; Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Then I said, “Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Then I said, "Behold, I come; In the scroll of the book it is written of me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your Law is within my heart."</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O LORD.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great congregation; Behold, I will not restrain my lips, O LORD, You know.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness from the great congregation.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As for you, O LORD, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You, O LORD, will not withhold Your compassion from me; Your lovingkindness and Your truth will continually preserve me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For evils beyond number have surrounded me; My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my heart has failed me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me! O LORD, make haste to help me!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; Make haste, O LORD, to help me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let those be put to shame and disappointed altogether who seek to snatch away my life; let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let those be ashamed and humiliated together Who seek my life to destroy it; Let those be turned back and dishonored Who delight in my hurt.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let those be appalled because of their shame who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let those be appalled because of their shame Who say to me, "Aha, aha!"</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the LORD!”<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; Let those who love Your salvation say continually, "The LORD be magnified!"</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">As for me, I am poor and needy, but the Lord takes thought for me. 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