Tehillim, 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 set in order 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.
My ears have you opened:
Burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
{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 law 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 lovingkindness and your truth from the
great assembly.
{40:11} Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD.
Let your lovingkindness 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 put to shame 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 [1>]eretz[<1],
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 come 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 Yisra'el,
From everlasting and to everlasting!
Amein and amein.
BOOK II
Psalm 42
For the Chief Musician. A maskil by the sons of Korach.
{42:1} As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So pants my soul after you, God.
{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 the house of God,
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 Yarden,
The heights of Hermon, from the hill Mitz`ar.
{42:7} Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls.
All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
{42:8} The LORD will command his lovingkindness 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] {41:2} earth
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