Psalms 40
Berean Standard BibleTranslation
Berean Standard Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
2He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.
2Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
3He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
3The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
4Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.
4The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
5Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.
5I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
6My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?
7Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:
7And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.
8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
8All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
9I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
9They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
10I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.
10For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
11O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
11But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.
12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
12By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.
13But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
14May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
14Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.
15May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.
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16May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The LORD be magnified!”
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17But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.
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