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Psalms 40:8-16 Revised Version 1885 (RV1885)

8. I delight to do thy will, O my God; yea, thy law is within my heart.

9. I have published righteousness in the great congregation; lo, I will not refrain my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

10. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

11. Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

12. For innumerable evils have compassed me about, mine iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head, and my heart hath failed me.

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

14. Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it: let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour that delight in my hurt.

15. Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that say unto me, Aha, Aha.

16. Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

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