{"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/web/psalms/40","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T02:37:30.718Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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 Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Then I said, |Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.|"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"I have not hidden 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 assembly."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, |Aha! Aha!|"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, |Let Yahweh be exalted!|"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 40 (WEB)","markdown":"[Psalms 40](https://primebible.com/web/psalms/40)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/psalms/40 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}