Psalm 40

  1    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 usward:  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.

    Psalm 40 - KJV