For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

40:1 I waited patiently for Yahweh.

He turned to me, and heard my cry.

40:2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,

out of the miry clay.

He set my feet on a rock,

and gave me a firm place to stand.

40:3 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.

Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

40:4 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,

and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

40:5 Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,

and your thoughts which are toward us.

They can't be declared back to you.

If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

40:6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire.

You have opened my ears.

You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

40:7 Then I said, "Behold, I have come.

It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

40:8 I delight to do your will, my God.

Yes, your law is within my heart."

40:9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.

Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

40:10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.

I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.

I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.

40:11 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh.

Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

40:12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me.

My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up.

They are more than the hairs of my head.

My heart has failed me.

40:13 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me.

Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

40:14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.

Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

40:15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"

40:16 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.

Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let Yahweh be exalted!"

40:17 But I am poor and needy.

May the Lord think about me.

You are my help and my deliverer.

Don't delay, my God.