# Psalm 40 (New King James Version)
Faith Persevering in Trial

##### Chapter 40
###### 1 I waited patiently for the Lord;  
And He inclined to me,  
And heard my cry.  

###### 2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,  
Out of the miry clay,  
And set my feet upon a rock,  
_And_ established my steps.  

###### 3 He has put a new song in my mouth--  
Praise to our God;  
Many will see _it_ and fear,  
And will trust in the Lord.

###### 4 Blessed _is_ that man who makes the Lord his trust,  
And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.  

###### 5 Many, O Lord my God, _are_ Your wonderful works  
_Which_ You have done;  
And Your thoughts toward us  
Cannot be recounted to You in order;  
_If_ I would declare and speak _of them,_  
They are more than can be numbered.

###### 6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;  
My ears You have opened.  
Burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.  

###### 7 Then I said, "Behold, I come;  
In the scroll of the book _it is_ written of me.  

###### 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God,  
And Your law _is_ within my heart."

###### 9 I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness  
In the great assembly;  
Indeed, I do not restrain my lips,  
O Lord, You Yourself know.  

###### 10 I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;  
I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;  
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth  
From the great assembly.

###### 11 Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord;  
Let Your lovingkindness and Your truth continually preserve me.  

###### 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;  
Therefore my heart fails me.

###### 13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;  
O Lord, make haste to help me!  

###### 14 Let them be ashamed and brought to mutual confusion  
Who seek to destroy my life;  
Let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor  
Who wish me evil.  

###### 15 Let them be confounded because of their shame,  
Who say to me, "Aha, aha!"

###### 16 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;  
Let such as love Your salvation say continually,  
"The Lord be magnified!"  

###### 17 But I _am_ poor and needy;  
_Yet_ the Lord thinks upon me.  
You _are_ my help and my deliverer;  
Do not delay, O my God.