Psalms 40
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
World English Bible
1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
1I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
2Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
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.
3He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
4Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
5I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
5Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
6My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?
6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
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.
7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
8All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
9They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
10For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
11But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.
11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
12By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
13But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
13Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
14Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.
14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
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15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
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16Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
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17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
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