For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

• ¹I waited patiently for Yahweh.
• He turned to me, and heard my cry.

• ²He 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.

• ³He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.
• Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

• ⁴Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust,
• and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

• ⁵Many, 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.

• ⁶Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.
• You have opened my ears.
• You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

• ⁷Then I said, “Behold, I have come.
• It is written about me in the book in the scroll.

• ⁸I delight to do your will, my God.
• Yes, your law is within my heart.”

• ⁹I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.
• Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.

• ¹⁰I 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.

• ¹¹Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh.
• Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.

• ¹²For 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.

• ¹³Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me.
• Hurry to help me, Yahweh.

• ¹⁴Let 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.

• ¹⁵Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”

• ¹⁶Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
• Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let Yahweh be exalted!”

• ¹⁷But I am poor and needy.
• May the Lord think about me.

• You are my help and my deliverer.
• Don’t delay, my God.