Psalm 40:9–17

9  I have preached righteousness win the great congregation:

Lo, xI have not yrefrained my lips,

O Lord, zthou 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 uthe great congregation.

11  yWithhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord:

Let athy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

12  For innumerable evils have bcompassed me about:

cMine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;

ccThey are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore dmy heart †faileth me.

13  Be pleased, O Lord, eto deliver me:

O Lord, fmake haste to help me.

14  gLet 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 hdesolate for a reward of their shame

That isay unto me, Aha, aha.

16  Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:

Let such as love thy salvation ksay continually, lThe Lord be magnified.

17  But mI am poor and needy; yet nthe Lord thinketh upon me:

Thou art my help and my deliverer;

Make no tarrying, O my God.