Psalms 40
40
Gratitude and Prayer for Help
1For the leader. A psalm of David.
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2Surely, I wait for the Lord;
who bends down to me and hears my cry,#Lam 3:25.
3Draws me up from the pit of destruction,
out of the muddy clay,#Ps 28:1; 30:4; 69:3, 15–16; 88:5; Prv 1:12; Jon 2:7.
Sets my feet upon rock,
steadies my steps,
4And puts a new song#A new song: a song in response to the new action of God (cf. Ps 33:3; 96:1; 144:9; 149:1; Is 42:10). Giving thanks is not purely a human response but is itself a divine gift. in my mouth,#Ps 33:3.
a hymn to our God.
Many shall look on in fear
and they shall trust in the Lord.
5Blessed the man who sets
his security in the Lord,
who turns not to the arrogant
or to those who stray after falsehood.#Ps 1:1; Prv 16:20; Jer 17:7.
6You, yes you, O Lord, my God,
have done many wondrous deeds!
And in your plans for us
there is none to equal you.#Ps 35:10.
Should I wish to declare or tell them,
too many are they to recount.#Ps 71:15; 139:17–18.
7#Obedience is better than sacrifice (cf. 1 Sm 15:22; Is 1:10–20; Hos 6:6; Am 5:22–25; Mi 6:6–8; Acts 7:42–43 [quoting Am 5:25–26]). Heb 10:5–9 quotes the somewhat different Greek version and interprets it as Christ’s self-oblation.Sacrifice and offering you do not want;#Heb 10:5–7; Ps 51:18–19; Am 5:22; Hos 6:6; Is 1:11–15.
you opened my ears.
Holocaust and sin-offering you do not request;
8so I said, “See; I come
with an inscribed scroll written upon me.
9I delight to do your will, my God;
your law is in my inner being!”#Ps 37:31.
10When I sing of your righteousness
in a great assembly,
See, I do not restrain my lips;
as you, Lord, know.#Ps 22:23; 26:12; 35:18; 149:1.
11I do not conceal your righteousness
within my heart;
I speak of your loyalty and your salvation.
I do not hide your mercy or faithfulness from a great assembly.
12Lord, may you not withhold
your compassion from me;
May your mercy and your faithfulness
continually protect me.#Ps 89:34.
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13But evils surround me
until they cannot be counted.
My sins overtake me,
so that I can no longer see.
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my courage fails me.#Ps 38:5, 11; Ezr 9:6.
14Lord, graciously rescue me!#Ps 70:2–6; 71:12.
Come quickly to help me, Lord!
15May those who seek to destroy my life
be shamed and confounded.
Turn back in disgrace
those who desire my ruin.#Ps 35:4, 26.
16Let those who say to me “Aha!”#Ps 35:21, 25.
Be made desolate on account of their shame.
17While those who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you.
May those who long for your salvation
always say, “The Lord is great.”#Ps 35:27.
18Though I am afflicted and poor,
my Lord keeps me in mind.
You are my help and deliverer;
my God, do not delay!
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Psalm 40
40
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
1I waited patiently for the LORD;
And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even
praise unto our God:
Many shall see it, and fear,
And shall trust in the LORD.
4Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust,
And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
5Many, O LORD my God,
Are thy wonderful works which thou hast done,
And thy thoughts which are to us-ward:
They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee:
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.
6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;
Mine ears hast thou opened:
Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
7Then said I, Lo, I come:
In the volume of the book it is written of me, 8I delight to do thy will, O my God:
Yea, thy law is within my heart.
9I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
10I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;
I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:
I have not concealed thy lovingkindness,
And thy truth from the great congregation.
11Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD:
Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
12For innumerable evils have compassed me about:
Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of mine head:
Therefore my heart faileth me.
13Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me:
O LORD, make haste to help me.
14Let them be ashamed and confounded together
That seek after my soul to destroy it;
Let them be driven backward
and put to shame that wish me evil.
15Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame
That say unto me, Aha, aha.
16Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
Let such as love thy salvation say continually, the LORD be magnified.
17But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me:
Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
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