Psalms 39:2-8

²I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.

³And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.

⁴And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.

⁵Blessed is the man whose hope is the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.

⁶O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.

⁷Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require.

⁸Then I said, Behold, I come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,