I didn't open my mouth, because you did it. 039:010 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand. 039:011 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah. 039:012 "Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were. 039:013 Oh spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go away, and exist no more." 040:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry. 040:002 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. 040:003 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh. 040:004 Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. 040:005 Many, 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. 040:006 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering. 040:007 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. 040:008 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart." 040:009 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know. 040:010 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. 040:011 Don't withhold your tender mercies from me, Yahweh. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me. 040:012 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. 040:013 Be pleased, Yahweh, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, Yahweh. 040:014 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. 040:015 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!" 040:016 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, "Let Yahweh be exalted!" 040:017 But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God.