Psalms 40

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.	1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
2 Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.	2 With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and he was attentive to me.
3 May the Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth. And may he not hand him over to the will of his adversaries.	3 And he heard my prayers, and brought me out of the pit of misery and the mire of dregs. And he set my feet upon a rock, and directed my steps.
4 May the Lord bring him help on his bed of sorrow. In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering.	4 And he put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many shall see, and shall fear : and they shall hope in the Lord.
5 I said, “O Lord, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.”	5 Blessed is the man whose trust is in the name of the Lord; and who hath not had regard to vanities, and lying follies.
6 My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?	6 Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God : and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.
7 And when he came in to see me, he was speaking emptiness. His heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went outside, and he was speaking in the same way.	7 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require :
8 All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.	8 then said I, Behold I come. In the head of the book it is written of me
9 They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again?	9 that I should do thy will : O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.
10 For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.	10 I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips : O Lord, thou knowest it.
11 But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them.	11 I have not hid thy justice within my heart : I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council.
12 By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me.	12 Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me : thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.
13 But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.	13 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head : and my heart hath forsaken me.
14 Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.	14 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me, look down, O Lord, to help me.
	15 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.
	16 Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me : 'T is well, 't is well.
	17 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee : and let such as love thy salvation say always : The Lord be magnified.
	18 But I am a beggar and poor : the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector : O my God, be not slack.