{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/40","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T19:30:21.188Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":40,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":39,"nextChapter":41,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":17},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock, and established my goings."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And he has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order to you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Then said I, See, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: see, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, you know."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I have not hid 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 congregation."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Withhold not you your tender mercies from me, O LORD: let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For innumerable evils have compassed me about: my iniquities have taken hold on me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of my head: therefore my heart fails me."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me: O LORD, make haste to help me."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say to me, Aha, aha."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: let such as love your salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 40 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 40](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/40)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/40 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}