Psalms:40:6: Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Psalms:40:7: Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
Psalms:40:8: I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Psalms:40:9: I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
Psalms: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 congregation.
Psalms:40:11: Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
Psalms:40:12: 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.
Psalms:40:13: Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.
Psalms: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.
Psalms:40:15: Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.
Psalms:40:16: Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.
Psalms:40:17: But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.
Chapter 41
Psalms:41:1: Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
Psalms:41:2: The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
Psalms:41:3: The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.
Psalms:41:4: I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
Psalms:41:5: Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
Psalms:41:6: And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Psalms:41:7: All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.
Psalms:41:8: An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.
Psalms:41:9: Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Psalms:41:10: But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psalms:41:11: By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psalms:41:12: And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
Psalms:41:13: Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
