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World English Bible

Psalm 40 (WEBP)

[1] I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
[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.
[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 Yahweh.
[4] Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
[5] Many, Yahweh, 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 counted.
[6] Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
[7] Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
[8] I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
[9] I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
[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.
[11] Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
[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.
[13] Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh.
[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.
[15] Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
[16] Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”
[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.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Psalm 40 (KJVS)

[1] I waited patiently for the Lord; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
[2] He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
[3] 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.
[4] Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
[5] Many, O Lord my God, Are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward: They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.
[6] Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
[7] Then said I, Lo, I come: In the volume of the book it is written of me,
[8] I delight to do thy will, O my God: Yea, thy law is within my heart.
[9] I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: Lo, I have not refrained 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 for a reward of their shame That say unto me, Aha, aha.
[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.
[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.

Psalm 40:1 Heb. In waiting I waited
Psalm 40:2 Heb. a pit of noise
Psalm 40:5 Or, none can order them unto thee
Psalm 40:6 Heb. digged
Psalm 40:8 Heb. in the midst of my bowels
Psalm 40:12 Heb. forsaketh

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Psalm 40 (BYZ)

[1] Εἰς () τὸ () τέλος· () τῷ () Δαυιδ () ψαλμός. () Ὑπομένων () ὑπέμεινα () τὸν () κύριον, () καὶ () προσέσχεν () μοι () καὶ () εἰσήκουσεν () τῆς () δεήσεώς () μου ()
[2] καὶ () ἀνήγαγέν () με () ἐκ () λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας () καὶ () ἀπὸ () πηλοῦ () ἰλύος καὶ () ἔστησεν () ἐπὶ () πέτραν () τοὺς () πόδας () μου () καὶ () κατηύθυνεν () τὰ () διαβήματά μου ()
[3] καὶ () ἐνέβαλεν () εἰς () τὸ () στόμα () μου () ᾆσμα καινόν, () ὕμνον () τῷ () θεῷ () ἡμῶν· () ὄψονται () πολλοὶ () καὶ () φοβηθήσονται () καὶ () ἐλπιοῦσιν () ἐπὶ () κύριον. ()
[4] Μακάριος () ἀνήρ, () οὗ () ἐστιν () τὸ () ὄνομα () κυρίου () ἐλπὶς () αὐτοῦ () καὶ () οὐκ () ἐνέβλεψεν () εἰς () ματαιότητας () καὶ () μανίας () ψευδεῖς. ()
[5] Πολλὰ () ἐποίησας () σύ, () κύριε () ὁ () θεός () μου, () τὰ () θαυμάσιά () σου, () καὶ () τοῖς () διαλογισμοῖς () σου () οὐκ () ἔστιν () τίς () ὁμοιωθήσεταί () σοι· () ἀπήγγειλα () καὶ () ἐλάλησα, () ἐπληθύνθησαν () ὑπὲρ () ἀριθμόν. ()
[6] Θυσίαν () καὶ () προσφορὰν () οὐκ () ἠθέλησας, () ὠτία () δὲ () κατηρτίσω () μοι· () ὁλοκαύτωμα () καὶ () περὶ () ἁμαρτίας () οὐκ () ᾔτησας. ()
[7] Τότε () εἶπον () Ἰδοὺ () ἥκω, () ἐν () κεφαλίδι () βιβλίου () γέγραπται () περὶ () ἐμοῦ· ()
[8] τοῦ () ποιῆσαι () τὸ () θέλημά () σου, () ὁ () θεός () μου, () ἐβουλήθην () καὶ () τὸν () νόμον () σου () ἐν () μέσῳ () τῆς () κοιλίας () μου. ()
[9] Εὐηγγελισάμην () δικαιοσύνην () ἐν () ἐκκλησίᾳ () μεγάλῃ· () ἰδοὺ () τὰ () χείλη () μου () οὐ () μὴ () κωλύσω· () κύριε, () σὺ () ἔγνως. ()
[10] Τὴν () δικαιοσύνην () σου () οὐκ () ἔκρυψα () ἐν () τῇ () καρδίᾳ () μου, () τὴν () ἀλήθειάν () σου () καὶ () τὸ () σωτήριόν () σου () εἶπα, () οὐκ () ἔκρυψα () τὸ () ἔλεός () σου () καὶ () τὴν () ἀλήθειάν () σου () ἀπὸ () συναγωγῆς () πολλῆς. ()
[11] Σὺ () δέ, () κύριε, () μὴ () μακρύνης τοὺς () οἰκτιρμούς () σου () ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ· () τὸ () ἔλεός () σου () καὶ () ἡ () ἀλήθειά () σου () διὰ () παντὸς () ἀντελάβοντό () μου. ()
[12] Ὅτι () περιέσχον () με () κακά, () ὧν () οὐκ () ἔστιν () ἀριθμός, () κατέλαβόν () με () αἱ () ἀνομίαι () μου, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἠδυνήθην () τοῦ () βλέπειν· () ἐπληθύνθησαν () ὑπὲρ () τὰς () τρίχας () τῆς () κεφαλῆς () μου, () καὶ () ἡ () καρδία () μου () ἐγκατέλιπέν () με. ()
[13] Εὐδόκησον, () κύριε, () τοῦ () ῥύσασθαί () με· () κύριε, () εἰς () τὸ () βοηθῆσαί () μοι () πρόσχες. ()
[14] Καταισχυνθείησαν () καὶ () ἐντραπείησαν () ἅμα () οἱ () ζητοῦντες () τὴν () ψυχήν () μου () τοῦ () ἐξᾶραι () αὐτήν, () ἀποστραφείησαν () εἰς () τὰ () ὀπίσω () καὶ () ἐντραπείησαν () οἱ () θέλοντές () μοι () κακά, ()
[15] κομισάσθωσαν () παραχρῆμα () αἰσχύνην () αὐτῶν () οἱ () λέγοντές () μοι () Εὖγε εὖγε.
[16] Ἀγαλλιάσαιντο () καὶ () εὐφρανθείησαν () ἐπὶ () σοὶ () πάντες () οἱ () ζητοῦντές () σε, () κύριε, () καὶ () εἰπάτωσαν () διὰ () παντός () Μεγαλυνθήτω () ὁ () κύριος, () οἱ () ἀγαπῶντες () τὸ () σωτήριόν () σου. ()
[17] Ἐγὼ () δὲ () πτωχός () εἰμι () καὶ () πένης· () κύριος () φροντιεῖ () μου. () Βοηθός () μου () καὶ () ὑπερασπιστής μου () σὺ () εἶ· () ὁ () θεός () μου, () μὴ () χρονίσῃς. ()

Psalm 40:1 Originally verses 39:1–2.
Psalm 40:2 Originally verse 39:3.
Psalm 40:3 Originally verse 39:4.
Psalm 40:4 Originally verse 39:5.
Psalm 40:5 Originally verse 39:6.
Psalm 40:6 Originally verse 39:7.
Psalm 40:7 Originally verse 39:8.
Psalm 40:8 Originally verse 39:9.
Psalm 40:9 Originally verse 39:10.
Psalm 40:10 Originally verse 39:11.
Psalm 40:11 Originally verse 39:12.
Psalm 40:12 Originally verse 39:13.
Psalm 40:13 Originally verse 39:14.
Psalm 40:14 Originally verse 39:15.
Psalm 40:15 Originally verse 39:16.
Psalm 40:16 Originally verse 39:17.
Psalm 40:17 Originally verse 39:18.

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.