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The Psalms, starting at chapter 40
Psalm 40
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
{40:1} I waited patiently for the LORD.
He turned to me, and heard my cry.
{40:2} He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,
out of the miry clay.
He set my feet on a rock,
and gave me a firm place to stand.
{40:3} He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
{40:4} Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,
and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
{40:5} Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,
and your thoughts which are toward us.
They can't be declared back to you.
If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be
numbered.
{40:6} Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire.
You have opened my ears.
You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
{40:7} Then I said, "Behold, I have come.
It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
{40:8} I delight to do your will, my God.
Yes, your Torah is within my heart."
{40:9} I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great
assembly.
Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
{40:10} I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.
I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation.
I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the
great assembly.
{40:11} Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD.
Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
{40:12} 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.
My heart has failed me.
{40:13} Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me.
Hurry to help me, LORD.
{40:14} Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek
after my soul to destroy it.
Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in
my hurt.
{40:15} Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me,
"Aha! Aha!"
{40:16} Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let the LORD be
exalted!"
{40:17} But I am poor and needy.
May the Lord think about me.
You are my help and my deliverer.
Don't delay, my God.
Psalm 41
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
{41:1} Blessed is he who considers the poor.
The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
{41:2} The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive.
He shall be blessed on the earth,
and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
{41:3} The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed,
and restore him from his bed of illness.
{41:4} I said, "LORD, have mercy on me!
Heal me, for I have sinned against you."
{41:5} My enemies speak evil against me:
"When will he die, and his name perish?"
{41:6} If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
{41:7} All who hate me whisper together against me.
They imagine the worst for me.
{41:8} "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."
{41:9} Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
who ate bread with me,
has lifted up his heel against me.
{41:10} But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up,
that I may repay them.
{41:11} By this I know that you delight in me,
because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.
{41:12} As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
{41:13} Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
from everlasting and to everlasting!
Amen and amen.
BOOK II
Psalm 42
For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.
{42:1} As the deer pants for the water brooks,
so my soul pants after you, [1>]God[<1].
{42:2} My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When shall I come and appear before God?
{42:3} My tears have been my food day and night,
while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
{42:4} These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me,
how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God's house,
with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
{42:5} Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God!
For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
{42:6} My God, my soul is in despair within me.
Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan,
the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
{42:7} Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
{42:8} [2>]the LORD[<2] will command his loving kindness in the
daytime.
In the night his song shall be with me:
a prayer to the God of my life.
{42:9} I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
{42:10} As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me,
while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"
{42:11} Why are you in despair, my soul?
Why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God! For I shall still praise him,
the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
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Footnotes:
[1] {42:1} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
[2] {42:8} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
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