4. Blessed is the manwho places trust in the Lord,but does not turn toward the proud,nor those falling away to falsehood.
5. O Lord my God,You have done many wonderful works,and Your thoughts toward uscannot be compared;if I would declare and speak of them,they are more than can be numbered.
6. Sacrifice and offering You did not desire;You have opened up my ears to listen.Burnt offering and sin offeringYou have not required.
7. Then I said, “Behold, I have come;in the scroll of the book it is written of me,
8. I delight to do Your will, O my God;Your law is within my inward parts.”
9. I have proclaimed righteousness in the great congregation;I have not held back my lips,O Lord, You know.
10. I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation;I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truthfrom the great congregation.
11. Do not withhold Your compassion from me, O Lord;may Your lovingkindness and Your truth always guard me.
12. For innumerable evils have surrounded me;my iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up;they are more than the hairs of my headso that my heart fails me.
13. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me;O Lord, make haste to help me.
14. May those seeking to snatch away my lifebe ashamed and confounded together;may those who desire my harmbe driven backward and dishonored.
15. May those who say to me “Aha, aha!”be appalled on account of their shame.
16. May all those who seek Yourejoice and be glad in You;may those who love Your salvation say continually,“The Lord is magnified.”
17. But I am poor and needy;yet the Lord thinks about me.You are my help and my deliverer;do not delay, O my God.