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From the Blue Letter Bible
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King James Version (KJV)
Psalm 40
  
  
| Psa 40:1 | ¶ | [[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.]] I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. |
  
  
| Psa 40:2 | | He 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. |
  
  
| Psa 40:3 | | And 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. |
  
  
| Psa 40:4 | | Blessed [is] that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. |
  
  
| Psa 40:5 | | Many, 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. |
  
  
| Psa 40:6 | | Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. |
  
  
| Psa 40:7 | | Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me, |
  
  
| Psa 40:8 | | I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart. |
  
  
| Psa 40:9 | | I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. |
  
  
| Psa 40:10 | | I 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. |
  
  
| Psa 40:11 | | Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. |
  
  
| Psa 40:12 | | For 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. |
  
  
| Psa 40:13 | | Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me. |
  
  
| Psa 40:14 | | Let 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. |
  
  
| Psa 40:15 | | Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha. |
  
  
| Psa 40:16 | | Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. |
  
  
| Psa 40:17 | | But 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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