39:3. And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps. 39:4. And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in the Lord. 39:5. Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies. 39:6. Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God: and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number. 39:7. Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: 39:8. Then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me 39:9. That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart. 39:10. I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it. 39:11. I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council. 39:12. Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me. 39:13. For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me. My iniquities... That is, the sins of all mankind, which I have taken upon me. 39:14. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. Look down, O Lord, to help me. 39:15. Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me. 39:16. Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: 'T is well, t' is well. 'T is well... The Hebrew here is an interjection of insult and derision, like the Vah. Matt. 27.49. 39:17. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified. 39:18. But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack. Psalms Chapter 40 Beatus qui intelligit. The happiness of him that shall believe in Christ; notwithstanding the humility and poverty in which he shall come: the malice of his enemies, especially of the traitor Judas. 40:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. 40:2. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. 40:3. The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies. 40:4. The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness. 40:5. I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.