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40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined unto me and heard my cry.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings.

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 the Lord.

Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Many, O Lord my God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done; and Thy thoughts which are directed toward us, they cannot be reckoned up in order unto Thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not desire; mine ears hast Thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering hast Thou not required.

Then said I, “Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me:

I delight to do Thy will, O my God; yea, Thy law is within my heart.”

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I have not restrained my lips, O Lord, Thou 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 the great congregation.

11 Withhold not Thou Thy tender mercies from me, O Lord; let Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth continually preserve me.

12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of mine head; therefore my heart faileth me.

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

14 Let 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 desolate as a reward for their shame, that say unto me, “Aha, aha!”

16 Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee; let those that love Thy salvation say continually, “The Lord be magnified!”

17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh of me. Thou art my help and my deliverer; do not tarry, O my God!

41 Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive, and he shallbe blessed upon the earth; and Thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; Thou wilt turn him on his bed in his sickness.

I said, “Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee.”

Mine enemies speak evil of me and say, “When shall he die and his name perish?”

And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself, and when he goeth out, he telleth it.

All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.

“An evil disease,” they say, “cleaveth fast unto him, and now that he lieth down, he shall rise up no more.”

Yea, mine own familiar friend in whom I trusted, that ate of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

10 But Thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up that I may requite them.

11 By this I know that Thou favorest me: because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

12 And as for me, Thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before Thy face for ever.

13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.