Part 22

19:040:001 I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

19:040:002 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.

19:040:003 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.

19:040:004 Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

19:040:005 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.

19:040:006 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

19:040:007 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

19:040:008 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

19:040:009 I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

19:040:010 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.

19:040:011 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

19:040:012 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.

19:040:013 Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me.

19:040:014 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.

19:040:015 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

19:040:016 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified.

19:040:017 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.

19:041:001 Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

19:041:002 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.

19:041:003 The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

19:041:004 I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

19:041:005 Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

19:041:006 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

19:041:007 All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

19:041:008 An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

19:041:009 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

19:041:010 But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

19:041:011 By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.