Psalms

40 I rested my hope in Jehovah

and he bent toward me and heard my cry

2 And took me up out of a pit of ruin,

out of quagmire mud,

And set my feet to stand erect on a crag,

made my tread sure,

3 And put in my mouth a new song,

praise to our God;

Many will see and fear

and rest secure in Jehovah.

4 Happy the man who has made Jehovah his reliance

and not turned toward pretenders and lie-peddlers.

5 Many are your wonders that you,

Jehovah my God, have done,

And your conceptions for us

cannot be listed for you;

Would I state and recite them,

they are beyond telling the story.

6 Sacrifice and grain-offering you did not care for;

ears you gave me.

Burnt-offering and sin-offering you did not ask;

7 Then I said “Here I come,

I have my instructions in a book.”

8 I mean to do your pleasure, my God,

and I have your instructions in my bosom.

9 I have told the news of right-doing

in a great assembly;

Here, I do not lock up my lips,

Jehovah, you know.

10 I have not covered up your right-doing inside my heart;

I have told your faithfulness and your salvation;

I have not concealed your friendship and loyalty

in a great assembly.

11 And you, Jehovah,

will not lock up your sympathy from me;

Your friendship and loyalty

will keep me always.

12 For evils have enveloped me beyond measure,

my misdeeds have overtaken me and I cannot see,

There are more of them than of hairs on my head,

and my heart has left me.

13 Be pleased to deliver me, Jehovah;

Jehovah, hasten to my help.

14 Let those be disappointed and abashed together

who are looking for my life to sweep it away;

Let those fall back and be humiliated

who would like harm for me.

16 Let all who go in quest of you

be joyous and merry in you;

Let those who love your salvation

say all the time “Jehovah is showing himself great!”

17 And me, insignificant and needy,

may the Lord have me in mind;

You are my help and deliverer;

my God, do not delay.