Psalm 40, side by side

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry.

¹I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

²He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

²He 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.

³He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.

³And 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.

⁴Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, who has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.

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

⁵Many, O LORD my God, are the wonders You have done, and the plans You have for us— none can compare to You— if I proclaim and declare them, they are more than I can count.

⁵Many, 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.

⁶Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

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

⁷Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll:

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

⁸I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

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

⁹I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.

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

¹⁰I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

¹⁰I 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.

¹¹O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.

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

¹²For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.

¹²For 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.

¹³Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me; hurry, O LORD, to help me.

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

¹⁴May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.

¹⁴Let 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.

¹⁵May those who say to me, “Aha, aha!” be appalled at their own shame.

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

¹⁶May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The LORD be magnified!”

¹⁶Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

¹⁷But I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my helper and deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

¹⁷But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.