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title: Psalm 40
slug: kjv/psalm-40
createdAt: 2024-08-21T03:05:10.202Z
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**1 **\{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

**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.

**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.

**4 **Blessed *is* that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

**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.

**6 **Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

**7 **Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book *it is* written of me,

**8 **I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law *is* within my heart.

**9 **I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

**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.

**11 **Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

**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.

**13 **Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

**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.

**15 **Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

**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.

**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.