# Psalms 40 [[Psalms 39|←]] • [[Psalms 41|→]] --- To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. ### 1 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. ### 2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, established my goings. ### 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God: many shall see and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. ### 4 Blessed that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. ### 5 Many, O Lord my God, thy wonderful works thou hast done, and thy thoughts to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: I would declare and speak they are more than can be numbered. ### 6 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. ### 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book written of me, ### 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law within my heart. ### 9 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. ### 10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. ### 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. ### 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. ### 13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me. ### 14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil. ### 15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. ### 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. ### 17 But I poor and needy; the Lord thinketh upon me: thou my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.