Psalms 40:7-17

⁷Then said I, Lo, I come: for in the rolle of the booke it is written of me,

⁸I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.

⁹I haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great Congregation: loe, I will not refraine my lippes: O Lord, thou knowest.

¹⁰I haue not hidde thy righteousnesse within mine heart, but I haue declared thy trueth and thy saluation: I haue not conceiled thy mercy and thy trueth from the great Congregation.

¹¹Withdrawe not thou thy tender mercie from mee, O Lord: let thy mercie and thy trueth alway preserue me.

¹²For innumerable troubles haue compassed mee: my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me, that I am not able to looke vp: yea, they are moe in nomber then the heares of mine head: therefore mine heart hath failed me.

¹³Let it please thee, O Lord, to deliuer mee: make haste, O Lord, to helpe me.

¹⁴Let them be confounded and put to shame together, that seeke my soule to destroye it: let them be driuen backward and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.

¹⁵Let them be destroyed for a rewarde of their shame, which say vnto me, Aha, aha.

¹⁶Let all them, that seeke thee, reioyce and be glad in thee: and let them, that loue thy saluation, say alway, The Lord be praysed.

¹⁷Though I be poore and needie, the Lord thinketh on mee: thou art mine helper and my deliuerer: my God, make no tarying.