Psalm 40:1-17
To the director. Of David, a melody.
40 I earnestly hoped in Jehovah,+And so he inclined [his ear] to me and heard my cry for help.+
2 He also proceeded to bring me up out of a roaring pit,+Out of the mire of [the] sediment.+Then he raised up my feet upon a crag;+He firmly established my steps.+
3 Further, he put in my mouth a new song,Praise to our God.+Many will see [it] and will fear,+And they will trust in Jehovah.+
4 Happy is the able-bodied man* that has put Jehovah as his trust+And that has not turned his face to defiant people,Nor to those falling away to lies.+
5 Many things you yourself have done,+O Jehovah my God, even your wonderful works and your thoughts toward us;+There is none to be compared to you.+Were I inclined to tell and speak [of them],They have become more numerous than I can recount.+
6 Sacrifice and offering you did not delight in;+These ears of mine you opened up.*+Burnt offering and sin offering you did not ask for.+
7 In view of that, I said: “Here I have come,+In the roll of the book it being written about me.+
8 To do your will,* O my God, I have delighted,+And your law is within my inward parts.+
9 I have told the good news* of righteousness in the big congregation.*+Look! My lips I do not restrain.+O Jehovah, you yourself know that well.+
10 Your righteousness I have not covered over within my heart.+Your faithfulness and your salvation I have declared.+I have not hidden your loving-kindness* and your trueness in* the big congregation.”+
11 You yourself, O Jehovah, do not restrain your pity from me.+Let your loving-kindness and your trueness themselves constantly safeguard me.+
12 For calamities encircled me until there was no numbering of them.+More errors of mine overtook me than I was able to see;+They became more numerous than the hairs of my head,+And my own heart left me.+
13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me.+O Jehovah, to my assistance do make haste.+
14 May those be ashamed and abashed all together+Who are seeking my soul to sweep it away.+May those turn back and be humiliated who are delighting in my calamity.+
15 Let those stare in amazement in consequence of their shame+Who are saying to me: “Aha! Aha!”+
16 Let those exult and rejoice in you,+All those who are seeking you.+Let those say constantly: “May Jehovah be magnified,”+Those who are loving salvation by you.+
17 But I am afflicted and poor.+Jehovah* himself takes account of me.+You are my assistance and the Provider of escape for me.+O my God, do not be too late.+
Footnotes
^ “The able-bodied man.” Heb., hag·geʹver.
^ “Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but you prepared a body for me,” LXXא,A,B. Lit., “ears you excavated for me,” M. Compare Heb 10:5.
^ Or, “pleasure.”
^ See 35:18 ftn.
^ “I have told the good news of.” Heb., bis·sarʹti; Gr., eu·eg·ge·li·saʹmen.
^ Or, “loyal love.”
^ “In,” T and many Heb. mss; M, “to”; LXXSyVg, “from.”
^ One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.
