Psalm 40
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 the, 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 41
1. BLESSED is
he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of
trouble.
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.
3. The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt
make all his bed in his sickness.
4. I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned
against thee.
5. Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name
perish?
6. And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth
iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
7. All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they
devise my hurt.
8. An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he
lieth he shall rise up no more.
9. Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat 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 favourest 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, and to
everlasting. Amen, and Amen.
Psalm 42
1. AS the
hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O
God.
2. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and
appear before God?
3. My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say
unto me, Where is thy God?
4. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I
had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with
the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me?
hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his
countenance.
6. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember
thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7. Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves
and thy billows are gone over me.
8. Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in
the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my
life.
9. I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I
mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10. As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they
say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
11. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted
within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the
health of my countenance, and my God.
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