Psalms 40
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1(40-1) For the Leader. A Psalm of David. (40-2) I waited patiently for the LORD; and He inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
2(40-3) He brought me up also out of the tumultuous pit, out of the miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, He established my goings.
2Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
3(40-4) And He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God; many shall see, and fear, and shall 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.
4(40-5) Happy is the man that hath made the LORD his trust, and hath not turned unto the arrogant, nor unto such as fall away treacherously.
4The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
5(40-6) Many things hast Thou done, O LORD my God, even Thy wonderful works, and Thy thoughts toward us; there is none to be compared unto Thee! If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be told.
5I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
6(40-7) Sacrifice and meal-offering Thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast Thou opened; burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required.
6My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?
7(40-8) Then said I: 'Lo, I am come with the roll of a book which is prescribed for me;
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.
8(40-9) I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is in my inmost parts.'
8All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
9(40-10) I have preached righteousness in the great congregation, lo, I did not refrain my lips; O LORD, Thou knowest.
9They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
10(40-11) I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation; I have not concealed Thy mercy and Thy truth from the great congregation.
10For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
11(40-12) Thou, O LORD, wilt not withhold Thy compassions from me; let Thy mercy and Thy truth continually preserve me.
11But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.
12(40-13) For innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.
12By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
13(40-14) Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; O LORD, make haste to help me.
13But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
14(40-15) Let them be ashamed and abashed together that seek after my soul to sweep it away; let them be turned backward and brought to confusion that delight in my hurt.
14Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.
15(40-16) Let them be appalled by reason of their shame that say unto me: 'Aha, aha.'
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16(40-17) Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; let such as love Thy salvation say continually: 'The LORD be magnified.'
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17(40-18) But, as for me, that am poor and needy, the Lord will account it unto me; Thou art my help and my deliverer; O my God, tarry not.
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