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Of David. A Psalm.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>I waited patiently for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he inclined to me and heard my cry.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>He drew me up from the desolate pit,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16598a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">out of the miry bog,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and set my feet upon a rock,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">making my steps secure.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>He put a new song in my mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a song of praise to our God.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Many will see and fear,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and put their trust in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Happy are those who make</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> their trust,</span></span><br /><span class="text">who do not turn to the proud,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to those who go astray after false gods.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>You have multiplied, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> my God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">none can compare with you.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Were I to proclaim and tell of them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they would be more than can be counted.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Sacrifice and offering you do not desire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but you have given me an open ear.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16602b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">Burnt offering and sin offering</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have not required.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Then I said, “Here I am;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the scroll of the book it is written of me.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16603c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>I delight to do your will, O my God;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your law is within my heart.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I have told the glad news of deliverance</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in the great congregation;</span></span><br /><span class="text">see, I have not restrained my lips,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as you know, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>I have not hidden your saving help within my heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I have not concealed your steadfast love and your faithfulness</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from the great congregation.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Do not, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, withhold</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your mercy from me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">let your steadfast love and your faithfulness</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">keep me safe forever.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>For evils have encompassed me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">without number;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my iniquities have overtaken me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">until I cannot see;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they are more than the hairs of my head,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my heart fails me.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Be pleased, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, to deliver me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, make haste to help me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Let all those be put to shame and confusion</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who seek to snatch away my life;</span></span><br /><span class="text">let those be turned back and brought to dishonor</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who desire my hurt.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Let those be appalled because of their shame</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who say to me, “Aha, Aha!”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>But may all who seek you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">rejoice and be glad in you;</span></span><br /><span class="text">may those who love your salvation</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">say continually, “Great is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>!”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>As for me, I am poor and needy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but the Lord takes thought for me.</span></span><br /><span class="text">You are my help and my deliverer;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">do not delay, O my God.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 40:2">Psalm 40:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>pit of tumult</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 40:6">Psalm 40:6</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>ears you have dug for me</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 40:7">Psalm 40:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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