¹ I waited patiently for the LORD;
And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
² He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
³ And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even
praise unto our God:
Many shall see it, and fear,
And shall trust in the LORD.

⁴ Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust,
And respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
⁵ Many, O LORD my God,
Are thy wonderful works which thou hast done,
And thy thoughts which are to us-ward:
They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee:
If I would declare and speak of them,
They are more than can be numbered.

⁶ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;
Mine ears hast thou opened:
Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
⁷ Then said I, Lo, I come:
In the volume of the book it is written of me, 8I delight to do thy will, O my God:
Yea, thy law is within my heart.

⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
Lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;
I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation:
I have not concealed thy lovingkindness,
And thy truth from the great congregation.
¹¹ Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O LORD:
Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

¹² For innumerable evils have compassed me about:
Mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up;
They are more than the hairs of mine head:
Therefore my heart faileth me.
¹³ Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me:
O LORD, make haste to help me.

¹⁴ Let them be ashamed and confounded together
That seek after my soul to destroy it;
Let them be driven backward
and put to shame that wish me evil.
¹⁵ Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame
That say unto me, Aha, aha.

¹⁶ Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:
Let such as love thy salvation say continually, the LORD be magnified.
¹⁷ But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me:
Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.