Psalms 40

1 to/for to conduct to/for David melody to await to await LORD and to stretch to(wards) me and to hear: hear cry my

For the chief musician. A psalm of David. I waited patiently for Yahweh; he listened to me and heard my cry.

2 and to ascend: establish me from pit roar from mud [the] mire and to arise: establish upon crag foot my to establish: establish step my

He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet on a rock and made my steps secure.

3 and to give: put in/on/with lip my song new praise to/for God our to see: see many and to fear: revere and to trust in/on/with LORD

He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many will see it and honor him and will trust in Yahweh.

4 blessed [the] great man which to set: make LORD confidence his and not to turn to(wards) proud and to swerve lie

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust and does not honor the proud or those who turn away from him to lies.

5 many to make: do you(m. s.) LORD God my to wonder your and plot your to(wards) us nothing to arrange to(wards) you to tell and to speak: speak be vast from to recount

Many, Yahweh my God, are the wonderful deeds that you have done, and your thoughts which are about us cannot be numbered; if I declared and spoke of them, they would be more than could be counted.

6 sacrifice and offering not to delight in ear to pierce to/for me burnt offering and sin not to ask

You have no delight in sacrifice or offering, but you have opened my ears; you have not required burnt offerings or sin offerings.

7 then to say behold to come (in): come in/on/with scroll scroll: book to write upon me

Then said I, “See, I have come; it is written about me in the scroll of the document.

8 to/for to make: do acceptance your God my to delight in and instruction your in/on/with midst belly my

I delight to do your will, my God; your laws are in my heart.”

9 to bear tidings righteousness in/on/with assembly many behold lips my not to restrain LORD you(m. s.) to know

I have proclaimed good news of your righteousness in the great assembly; Yahweh, you know that my lips have not kept back from doing this.

10 righteousness your not to cover in/on/with midst heart my faithfulness your and deliverance: salvation your to say not to hide kindness your and truth: faithful your to/for assembly many

I have not concealed your righteousness in my heart; I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation; I have not concealed your covenant faithfulness or your trustworthiness from the great assembly.

11 you(m. s.) LORD not to restrain compassion your from me kindness your and truth: faithful your continually to watch me

Do not keep back your acts of mercy from me, Yahweh; let your covenant faithfulness and your trustworthiness always preserve me.

12 for to surround upon me distress: evil till nothing number to overtake me iniquity: crime my and not be able to/for to see: see be vast from hair head my and heart my to leave: forsake me

Troubles that cannot be numbered surround me; my iniquities have caught up with me so that I am no longer able to see anything; they are more than the hairs on my head, and my heart has failed me.

13 to accept LORD to/for to rescue me LORD to/for help my to hasten [emph?]

Be pleased, Yahweh, to rescue me; hurry to help me, Yahweh.

14 be ashamed and be ashamed together to seek soul: life my to/for to snatch her to turn back and be humiliated delighting distress: harm my

Let them be ashamed and completely disappointed who pursue my life to take it away. Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor, those who delight in hurting me.

15 be desolate: appalled upon consequence shame their [the] to say to/for me Aha! Aha!

Let them be shocked because of their shame, those who say to me, “Aha, aha!”

16 to rejoice and to rejoice in/on/with you all to seek you to say continually to magnify LORD to love: lover deliverance: salvation your

But may all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let everyone who loves your salvation say continually, “May Yahweh be praised.”

17 and I afflicted and needy Lord to devise: devise to/for me help my and to escape me you(m. s.) God my not to delay

I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks about me. You are my help and you come to my rescue; do not delay, my God.