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Psalms 40:1
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I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
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Psalms 40:2
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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.
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Psalms 40:3
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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.
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Psalms 40:4
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Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, And doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
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Psalms 40:5
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Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, And your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be set in order to you; If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
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Psalms 40:6
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Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears: Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
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Psalms 40:7
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Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
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Psalms 40:8
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I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
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Psalms 40:9
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I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
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Psalms 40:10
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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.
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Psalms 40:11
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Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
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Psalms 40:12
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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.
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Psalms 40:13
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Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
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Psalms 40:14
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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.
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Psalms 40:15
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Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"
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Psalms 40:16
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Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let the LORD be exalted!"
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Psalms 40:17
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But I am poor and needy; May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. Psalm 41 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
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