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Psalm 40 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:1 - (LXX 39:1) For the end, a Psalm of David. (39:2) I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:2 - (LXX 39:3) And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:3 - (LXX 39:4) And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:4 - (LXX 39:5) Blessed is the man whose hope is the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:5 - (LXX 39:6) O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:6 - (LXX 39:7) [fn] Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:7 - (LXX 39:8) Then I said, Behold, I [fn]come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:8 - (LXX 39:9) I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:9 - (LXX 39:10) I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, thou knowest my righteousness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:10 - (LXX 39:11) I have not hid thy truth within my heart, and I have declared thy salvation; I have not hid thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:11 - (LXX 39:12) But thou, Lord, remove not thy compassion far from me; thy mercy and thy truth have helped me continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:12 - (LXX 39:13) For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:13 - (LXX 39:14) Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw nigh to help me.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:14 - (LXX 39:15) Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:15 - (LXX 39:16) Let those that say to me, Aha, aha, quickly receive shame for their reward.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:16 - (LXX 39:17) Let all those that seek thee, O Lord, exult and rejoice in thee; and let them that love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:17 - (LXX 39:18) But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; thou art my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.
BES Footnotes
Heb. 10:5,6.
Or, am come.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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