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Of David. A Psalm.} I waited patiently for Jehovah; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall confide in Jehovah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Blessed is the man that hath made Jehovah his confidence, and turneth not to the proud, and to such as turn aside to lies.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thou, O Jehovah my God, hast multiplied thy marvellous works, and thy thoughts toward us: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee; would I declare and speak [them], they are more than can be numbered.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then said I, Behold, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me --</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have published righteousness in the great congregation: behold, I have not withheld my lips, Jehovah, *thou* knowest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I have not hidden thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy loving-kindness and thy truth from the great congregation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Withhold not thou, Jehovah, thy tender mercies from me; let thy loving-kindness and thy truth continually preserve me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me; Jehovah, make haste to my help.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be turned backward and confounded that take pleasure in mine adversity;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Let them be desolate, because of their shame, that say unto me, Aha! Aha!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Let all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee; let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified!</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. 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