To the chief musician; a psalm of David.{HR}Waiting I waited for Jehovah,{HR}And he inclined unto me and heard my cry.
And he brought me up from a pit of noise,{HR}From the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock;{HR}He fixed my steps.
And he put in my mouth a new song, praise to our God:{HR}Many shall see and fear, and trust in Jehovah.
Blessed the man who hath made Jehovah his trust,{HR}And hath not turned round to the proud{HR}And those who swerve to falsehood.
Great things hast thou done, O Jehovah my God;{HR}Thy wonderful deeds and thy thoughts to us none can set in order to thee:{HR}I would declare and speak—they are too many to be numbered.
Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;{HR}Mine ears didst thou dig;{HR}Burnt-offering and sin-offering thou didst not ask.
Then I said, Behold, I come:{HR}In the volume of the book it is written of me:
To do thy will, my God, I delight;{HR}And thy law [is] in the midst of my bowels.
I have announced righteousness in the great congregation;{HR}Behold, I will not refrain my lips; O Jehovah, thou hast known.
Thy righteousness I hid not in the midst of my heart;{HR}Thy faithfulness and thy salvation I declared;{HR}I concealed not thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation.
Thou, O Jehovah, wilt not withhold thy compassion from me;{HR}Thy mercy and thy truth will always preserve me.
For evils till there is no number have encompassed me;{HR}Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I have not been able to see;{HR}They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath left me.
Be pleased, O Jehovah, to deliver me;{HR}O Jehovah, make haste to my help.
They shall be ashamed and confounded together that seek my soul to destroy it;{HR}Driven back and disgraced shall they be that wish my hurt.
They shall be desolate as a reward for their shame{HR}That say to me, Aha, aha.
Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee;{HR}Let those that love thy salvation say always, Jehovah be magnified.
But I poor and needy—the Lord considereth me.{HR}My help and deliverer [art] thou; O my God, delay not.