40: 1 A Sacrifice of Praise, and Prayer for Help. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
40: 2 He brought me up also out of ²⁴⁰a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
²⁴⁰Hb. a pit of tumult (or, of destruction)

40: 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah.
40: 4 Blessed is the man that maketh Jehovah his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as ²⁴¹turn aside to lies.
²⁴¹Or, fall away treacherously.

40: 5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are toward us: ²⁴²They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.
²⁴²Or, There is none to be compared unto thee;

40: 6 Sacrifice and ²⁴³offering thou hast no delight in; ²⁴⁴Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.
²⁴³Or, meal-offering
²⁴⁴Hb. Ears hast thou digged (or, pierced) for me:

40: 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is ²⁴⁵written of me:
²⁴⁵Or, prescribed to me:

40: 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yes, thy law is within my heart.
40: 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly; Lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Jehovah, thou knowest.
40: 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 the great assembly.
40: 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
40: 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; Mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; They are more than the hairs of my head; And my heart hath ²⁴⁶failed me.
²⁴⁶Hb. forsaken

40: 13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me: Make haste to help me, O Jehovah.
40: 14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together That seek after my soul to destroy it: Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor That delight in my hurt.
40: 15 Let them be ²⁴⁷desolate by reason of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha.
²⁴⁷Or, astonished

40: 16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: Let such as love thy salvation say continually, Jehovah be magnified.
40: 17 But I am poor and needy; Yet ²⁴⁸Jehovah thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
²⁴⁸Sopherim changed to the Lord