
40 - Expectans expectavi

1   I waited patiently for the Lord, 🞙
    and he inclined to me, and heard my call.

2   He brought me out of the horrible pit, out of the mire and clay; 🞙
    he set my feet upon the rock, and secured my footing.

3   He has put a new song in my mouth, 🞙
    a song of thanksgiving unto our God.

4   Many shall see and fear, 🞙
    and shall put their trust in the Lord.

5   Blessed is the man who has set his hope in the Lord, 🞙
    and has not turned to the proud, or to those who go about lying.

6   O Lord my God, great are the wondrous works which you have done, and also your thoughts toward us; 🞙
    there is none who can be compared with you.

7   If I should declare them and speak of them, 🞙
    they would be more than I am able to express.

8   Sacrifice and offering you do not desire, 🞙
    but my ears you have opened.

9   Burnt offerings and sin offerings you have not required, 🞙
    and so I said, “Behold, I come;

10  In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I delight to do your will, O my God; 🞙
    indeed, your law is within my heart.”

11  I have declared your righteousness in the great congregation; 🞙
    behold, I will not restrain my lips, O Lord, and that you know.

12  I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart; 🞙
    my talk has been of your truth and of your salvation.

13  I have not concealed your loving mercy and truth 🞙
    from the great congregation.

14  Withdraw not your mercy from me, O Lord; 🞙
    let your loving-kindness and your truth always preserve me.

15  For innumerable troubles have encompassed me; my sins have taken such hold of me that I am not able to look up; 🞙
    indeed, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart has utterly failed me.

16  O Lord, let it be your pleasure to deliver me; 🞙
    make haste, O Lord, to help me.

17  Let them be ashamed and confounded who seek after my soul  to destroy it; 🞙
    let them be driven backward and rebuked who wish me evil.

18  Let them be desolate and rewarded with shame 🞙
    who say to me, “Aha, Aha.”

19  Let all those who seek you be joyful and glad in you; 🞙
    and let those who love your salvation say always, “The Lord be praised.”

20  As for me, I am poor and needy, 🞙
    but the Lord cares for me.

21  You are my helper and deliverer; 🞙
    do not tarry, O my God.
