Psalm 40 NKJV

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A Psalm of David.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-40-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I waited patiently for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-1">And He inclined to me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-1">And heard my cry.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-2">Out of the miry clay,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-2">And set my feet upon a rock,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-2"><i>And</i> established my steps.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>He has put a new song in my mouth—</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-3">Praise to our God;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-3">Many will see <i>it</i> and fear,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-3">And will trust in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Blessed <i>is</i> that man who makes the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> his trust,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-4">And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Many, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> my God, <i>are</i> Your wonderful works</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-5"><i>Which</i> You have done;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-5">And Your thoughts toward us</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-5">Cannot be recounted to You in order;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-5"><i>If</i> I would declare and speak <i>of them,</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-5">They are more than can be numbered.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-6">My ears You have opened.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-6">Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then I said, “Behold, I come;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-7">In the scroll of the book <i>it is</i> written of me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I delight to do Your will, O my God,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-8">And Your law <i>is</i> within my heart.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-9">In the great assembly;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-9">Indeed, I do not restrain my lips,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-9">O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, You Yourself know.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-10">I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-10">I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-10">From the great assembly.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-11">Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For innumerable evils have surrounded me;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-12">My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-12">They are more than the hairs of my head;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-12">Therefore my heart fails me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Be pleased, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, to deliver me;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-13">O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, make haste to help me!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-14">Who seek to destroy my <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>life;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-14">Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-14">Who wish me evil.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Let them be confounded because of their shame,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-15">Who say to me, “Aha, aha!”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-16">Let such as love Your salvation say continually,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-16">“The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> be magnified!”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But I <i>am</i> poor and needy;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-17"><i>Yet</i> the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> thinks upon me.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-17">You <i>are</i> my help and my deliverer;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-40-17">Do not delay, O my God.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-14540a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 40:14">Psalm 40:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>soul</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, 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