New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures — With References (Rbi8, en_US, 1984)

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Psalms, 40

To the director. Of David, a melody.

1 I earnestly hoped in Jehovah, And so he inclined [his ear] to me and heard my cry for help.

2 He also proceeded to bring me up out of a roaring pit, Out of the mire of [the] sediment. Then he raised up my feet upon a crag; He firmly established my steps.

3 Further, he put in my mouth a new song, Praise to our God. Many will see [it] and will fear, And they will trust in Jehovah.

4 Happy is the able-bodied man*1 that has put Jehovah as his trust And that has not turned his face to defiant people, Nor to those falling away to lies.

  1. “The able-bodied man.” Heb., hag·geʹver.

5 Many things you yourself have done, O Jehovah my God, even your wonderful works and your thoughts toward us; There is none to be compared to you. Were I inclined to tell and speak [of them], They have become more numerous than I can recount.

6 Sacrifice and offering you did not delight in; These ears of mine you opened up.*1 Burnt offering and sin offering you did not ask for.

  1. “Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but you prepared a body for me,” LXXא,A,B. Lit., “ears you excavated for me,” M. Compare Heb 10:5.

7 In view of that, I said: “Here I have come, In the roll of the book it being written about me.

8 To do your will,*1 O my God, I have delighted, And your law is within my inward parts.

  1. Or, “pleasure.”

9 I have told the good news*1 of righteousness in the big congregation.*2 Look! My lips I do not restrain. O Jehovah, you yourself know that well.

  1. “I have told the good news of.” Heb., bis·sarʹti; Gr., eu·eg·ge·li·saʹmen.

  2. See 35:18 ftn.

10 Your righteousness I have not covered over within my heart. Your faithfulness and your salvation I have declared. I have not hidden your loving-kindness*1 and your trueness in*2 the big congregation.”

  1. Or, “loyal love.”

  2. “In,” T and many Heb. mss; M, “to”; LXXSyVg, “from.”

11 You yourself, O Jehovah, do not restrain your pity from me. Let your loving-kindness and your trueness themselves constantly safeguard me.

12 For calamities encircled me until there was no numbering of them. More errors of mine overtook me than I was able to see; They became more numerous than the hairs of my head, And my own heart left me.

13 Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me. O Jehovah, to my assistance do make haste.

14 May those be ashamed and abashed all together Who are seeking my soul to sweep it away. May those turn back and be humiliated who are delighting in my calamity.

15 Let those stare in amazement in consequence of their shame Who are saying to me: “Aha! Aha!”

16 Let those exult and rejoice in you, All those who are seeking you. Let those say constantly: “May Jehovah be magnified,” Those who are loving salvation by you.

17 But I am afflicted and poor. Jehovah*1 himself takes account of me. You are my assistance and the Provider of escape for me. O my God, do not be too late.

  1. One of 134 scribal changes from YHWH to ʼAdho·naiʹ. See App 1B.