A Reading of Psalm 40 in the LSB by Jesse Johnson
00:00:00.000 | - I'll read tonight Psalm 40 from the Legacy Standard Bible.
00:00:05.000 | It's for the choir director of David, a Psalm.
00:00:11.800 | I hoped earnestly for Yahweh and he inclined to me
00:00:16.240 | and heard my cry for help.
00:00:18.440 | He brought me up out of the pit of destruction,
00:00:20.440 | out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a high rock.
00:00:24.540 | He established my steps.
00:00:26.640 | He put a new song in my mouth,
00:00:28.520 | a song of praise to our God.
00:00:30.360 | Many will see and fear and will trust in Yahweh.
00:00:34.520 | How blessed is the man who has made Yahweh his trust
00:00:38.040 | and has not turned to the proud,
00:00:39.800 | nor to those who stray in the falsehood.
00:00:41.840 | Many, oh Yahweh, my God,
00:00:43.520 | are the wondrous deeds you have done.
00:00:45.760 | Your thoughts towards us, there's none to compare with you.
00:00:49.120 | I would declare and speak of them,
00:00:51.080 | but they are too numerous to recount.
00:00:53.320 | Sacrifice and meal offering you have not desired.
00:00:57.580 | My ears you have opened,
00:00:59.080 | burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
00:01:01.600 | Then I said, behold,
00:01:02.680 | I come in the scroll of the book it is written of me.
00:01:05.460 | I desire to do your will, oh my God.
00:01:07.880 | Your law is within my inner being.
00:01:10.060 | I proclaim the good news of righteousness
00:01:13.520 | in the great assembly.
00:01:14.640 | Behold, I do not restrain my lips, oh Yahweh.
00:01:17.480 | You know.
00:01:19.080 | I do not conceal your righteousness within my heart.
00:01:21.480 | I speak of your faithfulness and your salvation.
00:01:23.840 | I do not hide your loving kindness
00:01:26.000 | and your truth from the great assembly.
00:01:29.320 | You, oh Yahweh, will not withhold your compassion from me.
00:01:32.960 | Your loving kindness and your truth will continually guard me
00:01:36.440 | for evils beyond number have surrounded me.
00:01:39.040 | My iniquities have overtaken me so that I am not able to see
00:01:42.400 | they are more numerous than the hairs of my head
00:01:44.840 | and my heart has failed me.
00:01:47.240 | Be pleased, oh Yahweh, to deliver me.
00:01:50.600 | Make haste, oh Yahweh, to help me.
00:01:53.040 | Let those be ashamed and humiliated together
00:01:55.340 | who seek my life to sweep it away.
00:01:57.640 | Let those be turned back and dishonored
00:01:59.440 | who delight in evil against me.
00:02:01.880 | Let those be appalled because of their shame
00:02:04.080 | who say to me, aha, aha.
00:02:07.080 | Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you.
00:02:10.760 | Let those who love your salvation say continually,
00:02:14.140 | Yahweh, be magnified.
00:02:17.360 | As for me, I'm afflicted and needy.
00:02:20.280 | May the Lord think of me.
00:02:22.080 | You're my help and the one who rescues me.
00:02:24.960 | Do not delay, oh my God.
00:02:27.080 | (silence)
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