Psalms 39

¹Unto the end, a Psalm to David himself.

²Expecting I expected our Lord, and he hath attended to me.

³And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the lake of misery, and from the mire of dregs. And hath set my feet upon a rock: and hath directed my steps.

⁴And he hath put a new canticle into my mouth: a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear: and they shall hope in our Lord.

⁵Blessed is the man, whose hope is in the name of our Lord: and hath not had regard to vanities and false madness.

⁶Thou hast done many thy marvelous things, o Lord my God: & in thy cogitations there is none that may be like to thee. I have declared and have spoken: they multiplied above number.

⁷Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but ears thou hast perfited to me. Holocaust and for sin thou didst not require:

⁸then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me,

⁹that I should do thy will: my God I would, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

¹⁰I have declared thy justice in the great Church, lo I will not stay my lips: Lord thou hast known it.

¹¹Thy justice I have not hid in my heart: thy truth and thy salvation I have spoken. I have not hid thy mercy, and thy truth from the great Council.

¹²But thou, o Lord, make not thy commiserations far from me: thy mercy, and thy truth have always received me.

¹³Because evils have compassed me, which have no number: mine iniquities have overtaken me, & I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

¹⁴It may please thee, o Lord, to deliver me: Lord have respect to help me.

¹⁵Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward, and be ashamed that will me evils.

¹⁶Let them forthwith receive their confusion, that say to me: Well, well.

¹⁷Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad upon thee: and let them that love thy salvation, say always: Our Lord be magnified:

¹⁸But I am a beggar, and poor: Our Lord is careful to me. Thou art my helper, & my protector: my God be not slack.