Psalms 40:1-16

¹For the chief musician. A psalm of David. I waited patiently for Yahweh; he listened to me and heard my cry.

²He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet on a rock and made my steps secure.

³He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many will see it and honor him and will trust in Yahweh.

⁴Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not honor the proud or those who turn away from him to lies.

⁵Many, Yahweh my God, are the wonderful deeds that you have done, and your thoughts which are about us cannot be numbered; if I declared and spoke of them, they would be more than could be counted.

⁶You have no delight in sacrifice or offering, but you have opened my ears; you have not required burnt offerings or sin offerings.

⁷Then said I, “See, I have come; it is written about me in the scroll of the document.

⁸I delight to do your will, my God; your laws are in my heart.”

⁹I have proclaimed good news of your righteousness in the great assembly; Yahweh, you know that my lips have not kept back from doing this.

¹⁰I have not concealed your righteousness in my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your covenant faithfulness or your trustworthiness from the great assembly.

¹¹Do not keep back your acts of mercy from me, Yahweh; let your covenant faithfulness and your trustworthiness always preserve me.

¹²Troubles that cannot be numbered surround me; my iniquities have caught up with me so that I am no longer able to see anything; they are more than the hairs on my head, and my heart has failed me.

¹³Be pleased, Yahweh, to rescue me; hurry to help me, Yahweh.

¹⁴Let them be ashamed and completely disappointed who pursue my life to take it away. Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor, those who delight in hurting me.

¹⁵Let them be shocked because of their shame, those who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

¹⁶But may all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let everyone who loves your salvation say continually, “May Yahweh be praised.”