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Psalm 40:11-17 Amplified Bible (AMP)

11. Withhold not Your tender mercy from me, O Lord; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth continually preserve me!

12. For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken such hold on me that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me and forsaken me.

13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me!

14. Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek and require my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil and delight in my hurt!

15. Let them be desolate by reason of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha!

16. Let all those that seek and require You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified!

17. [As for me] I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought and plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry! [Ps. 70:1-5; I Pet. 5:7.]

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