< 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 the chief musician, a psalm of David.” I had waited patiently for the Lord, when he inclined himself unto 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
And he brought me up out of the noiseful deep, out of the miry clay, and he set up my feet upon a rock, making firm my steps.
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 placed in my mouth a new song, a praise unto our God: many will see it, and fear; and they will 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
Happy is the man that maketh the Lord his trust, and turneth not unto the proud, nor such as stray aside unto lies.
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
Many things hast thou done, O Lord my God; thy wonderful deeds and thy thoughts toward us—there is none to be compared unto thee—will I tell and speak of, [though] they are too numerous to be counted.
6 sacrifice and offering not to delight in ear to pierce to/for me burnt offering and sin not to ask
Sacrifice and meat-offering thou desirest not—ears hast thou hollowed out unto me—burnt-offering and sin-offering thou demandest not.
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: in the roll of the book it is written down for me;
8 to/for to make: do acceptance your God my to delight in and instruction your in/on/with midst belly my
To fulfill thy will, O my God, do I desire; and thy law is within my heart.
9 to bear tidings righteousness in/on/with assembly many behold lips my not to restrain LORD you(m. s.) to know
I announce [thy] righteousness in the great assembly: lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, thou well knowest it.
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
Thy righteousness have I never hidden within my heart; thy faithfulness and thy salvation have I spoken of openly: I have not concealed thy kindness and thy truth before the great assembly.
11 you(m. s.) LORD not to restrain compassion your from me kindness your and truth: faithful your continually to watch me
Do thou, O Lord, not withhold thy mercies from me: let thy kindness and thy truth continually watch over 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 evils without number have compassed me about; my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see: they are more numerous than the hairs of my head; and my courage hath forsaken me.
13 to accept LORD to/for to rescue me LORD to/for help my to hasten [emph?]
Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, hasten to my help.
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
May those be made ashamed and put to the blush together that seek after my soul to take her away: let them be driven backward and be confounded, that wish for my mishap.
15 be desolate: appalled upon consequence shame their [the] to say to/for me Aha! Aha!
May they be astonished in consequence of their shame that say unto 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
[But] may all those that seek thee be glad and rejoice in thee: may they say continually, The Lord be magnified, —those that love thy salvation.
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
But though I be poor and needy, the Lord will think of me: my help and my deliverer art thou: O my God, delay not.