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

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. I Waited paciently for the Lord, and he inclined vnto 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

Hee brought mee also out of the horrible pit, out of the myrie clay, and set my feete vpon the rocke, and ordered my goings.

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

And he hath put in my mouth a new song of praise vnto our God: many shall see it and feare, and shall trust in the Lord.

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 that maketh the Lord his trust, and regardeth not the proude, nor such as turne aside to lyes.

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

O Lord my God, thou hast made thy wonderfull workes so many, that none can count in order to thee thy thoughts toward vs: I would declare, and speake of them, but they are moe then I am able to expresse.

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

Sacrifice and offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required.

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

Then said I, Lo, I come: for in the rolle of the booke it is written of me,

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

I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.

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

I haue declared thy righteousnesse in the great Congregation: loe, I will not refraine my lippes: O Lord, thou knowest.

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 haue not hidde thy righteousnesse within mine heart, but I haue declared thy trueth and thy saluation: I haue not conceiled thy mercy and thy trueth from the great Congregation.

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

Withdrawe not thou thy tender mercie from mee, O Lord: let thy mercie and thy trueth alway preserue 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

For innumerable troubles haue compassed mee: my sinnes haue taken such holde vpon me, that I am not able to looke vp: yea, they are moe in nomber then the heares of mine head: therefore mine heart hath failed me.

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

Let it please thee, O Lord, to deliuer mee: make haste, O Lord, to helpe me.

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 confounded and put to shame together, that seeke my soule to destroye it: let them be driuen backward and put to rebuke, that desire mine hurt.

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

Let them be destroyed for a rewarde of their shame, which say vnto 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

Let all them, that seeke thee, reioyce and be glad in thee: and let them, that loue thy saluation, say alway, The Lord be praysed.

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

Though I be poore and needie, the Lord thinketh on mee: thou art mine helper and my deliuerer: my God, make no tarying.