Psalms 40:8-16

⁸(40:9) To fulfill thy will, O my God, do I desire; and thy law is within my heart.

⁹(40:10) I announce thy righteousness in the great assembly: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, thou well knowest it.

¹⁰(40:11) Thy righteousness have I never hidden within my heart; thy faithfulness and thy salvation have I spoken of openly: I have not concealed thy kindness and thy truth before the great assembly.

¹¹(40:12) Do thou, O Lord, not withhold thy mercies from me: let thy kindness and thy truth continually watch over me.

¹²(40:13) For evils without number have compassed me about; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see: they are more numerous than the hairs of my head; and my courage hath forsaken me.

¹³(40:14) Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, hasten to my help.

¹⁴(40:15) May those be made ashamed and put to the blush together that seek after my soul to take her away: let them be driven backward and be confounded, that wish for my mishap.

¹⁵(40:16) May they be astonished in consequence of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha!

¹⁶(40:17) But may all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee: may they say continually, The Lord be magnified,—those that love thy salvation.