Psalms 40 — Novel English Bible

1 I qawah (gather/wait) qawah (gather/wait) for Yahawah (). He natah (turned) to me, and shamai (hearken / hear) my cry.

2 He ilah (go up / offer) me up also out of a shaawan (horrible) bawar (pit), out of the yawan (miry) tayat (clay). He qawam (rise up) my ragal (feet / foot) on a salai (rock), and gave me a kawan (firm) place to stand.

3 He nathan (give) put a chadash (new) shayar (song) in my pah (mouth), even thahalah (praise) to our Alahayam (). Many shall raah (see) it, and yaraa (fear / be afraid), and shall batach (trust) in Yahawah ().

4 Ashar (who/that) is the gabar (man) who shawam (place / establish / appoint) Yahawah () his mabatach (trust), and doesn't panah (turn) the rahab (proud), nor such as shawat (turn) aside to kazab (lies).

5 Many, Yahawah (), my Alahayam (), are the palaa (be wonderful / extraordinary / marvelous) ishah (make) which you have done, and your machashabah (thoughts) which are toward us. They can't be nagad (declared) back to you. If I would nagad (declare) and dabar (word / matter) of them, they are more than can be sapar (book).

6 Zabach (sacrifice) and manachah (offering) you didn't chapatz (desire). You have karah (opened) my azanayam (ears). You have not shaal (required) burnt ilah (offering) and chataah (sin) offering.

7 Then I amar (said), “Behold, I bawaa (bring) come. It is kathab (write) about me in the sapar (book / scribed document) in the scroll.

8 I chapatz (delight) to ishah (make) your ratzawan (will), my Alahayam (). Yes, your thawarah (instruction) is thawak (midst) my maih (heart).”

9 I have proclaimed glad news of tzadaq (righteous / just / fair) in the rab (great) qahal (assembly). Behold, I will not seal my shapah (lips), Yahawah (), you yadai (know).

10 I have not kasah (hidden) your tzadaqah (righteousness) thawak (midst) my lab (heart). I have amar (said) your amawanah (faithfulness) and your thashawaih (deliverance). I have not kachad (concealed) your loving chasad (grace) and your amath (truth) from the rab (great) qahal (assembly).

11 Don't kalaa (withhold) your tender racham (show mercy / love) from me, Yahawah (). Let your loving chasad (grace) and your amath (truth) continually natzar (preserve) me.

12 For innumerable raiwath (evils) have surrounded me. My iwan (guilt/iniquity) have overtaken me, so that I am not yakal (able) to raah (see / saw) up. They are more than the shairawath (hairs) of my raash (head). My lab (heart) has izab (failed) me.

13 Be ratzah (pleased), Yahawah (), to natzal (deliver) me. Hurry to izarah (help) me, Yahawah ().

14 Let them be disappointed and chapar (confounded) yachad (together) who baqash (seek) after my napash (soul) to sapah (destroy) it. Let them be sawag (turned) backward and brought to dishonor who chapatz (delight) in my rai (hurt).

15 Let them be shamam (desolate) by reason of their bashath (shame) that amar (said) me, “haach (aha)! Haach (aha)!”

16 Let all those who baqash (seek) you shawash (rejoice) and be shamach (glad) in you. Let such as ahab (love) your thashawaih (deliverance) amar (spoke) continually, “Let Yahawah () be exalted!”

17 But I am inay (poor) and abayawan (needy). May the Adanay () chashab (think) about me. You are my izarah (help) and my deliverer. Don't achar (other), my Alahayam ().