Psalms 40
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
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.
2Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
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.
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 makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
4The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
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.
5I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
6My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?
7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book 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, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
8All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.
9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
9They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
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.
10For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
11But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.
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.
12By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
13Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
13But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
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.
14Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.
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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