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Chapter 40
Psal AKJV 40:1  I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.
Psal AKJV 40:2  He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings.
Psal AKJV 40:3  And 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.
Psal AKJV 40:4  Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Psal AKJV 40:5  Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Psal AKJV 40:6  Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
Psal AKJV 40:7  Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psal AKJV 40:8  I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
Psal AKJV 40:9  I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know.
Psal AKJV 40:10  I have not hid 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 congregation.
Psal AKJV 40:11  Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
Psal AKJV 40:12  For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me.
Psal AKJV 40:13  Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Psal AKJV 40:14  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.
Psal AKJV 40:15  Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, Aha, aha.
Psal AKJV 40:16  Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Psal AKJV 40:17  But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.