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Biblical traditions
The Bible: Old Testament Chapter 40
Chapter 585 of 1,075
Canonical reference Psalms 40
English
World English Bible editorial project · World English Bible, Catholic book order (2020)
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
1. I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
2. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
3. He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
4. Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
5. Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
6. Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
7. Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
8. I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
9. I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, 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 loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
11. Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve 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 head. My heart has failed me.
13. Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
14. Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
15. Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
16. Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
17. But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
French
Fraternite de Tiberiade · Sainte Bible neo-Crampon Libre (2022)
1. Du maître de chant. De David. Psaume.
2. J’ai mis en Yahwehtoute mon espérance : il s’est incliné vers moi, il a écouté mes cris.
3. Il m’a retiré de la fosse de perdition, de la fange du bourbier ; il a dressé mes pieds sur le rocher, il a affermi mes pas.
4. Il a mis dans ma bouche un cantique nouveau, une louange à notre Dieu ; beaucoup le voient, et ils révèrent Yahweh, ils se confient en lui.
5. Heureux l’homme qui a mis en Yahwehsa confiance, et qui ne se tourne pas vers les orgueilleux, et vers ceux que le mensonge égare !
6. Tu as multiplié, Yahweh, mon Dieu, tes merveilles et tes desseins en notre faveur : nul n’est comparable à toi. Je voudrais les publier et les proclamer ; ils surpassent tout récit.
7. Tu ne désires ni sacrifice ni oblation, tu m’as percé les oreilles ; tu ne demandes ni holocauste ni victime expiatoire.
8. Alors j’ai dit : « Voici que je viens, avec le rouleau du livre écrit pour moi.
9. Je veux faire ta volonté, ô mon Dieu, et ta loi est au fond de mon cœur. »
10. J’annoncerai la justice dans une grande assemblée ; je ne fermerai pas mes lèvres, Yahweh, tu le sais.
11. Je ne tiendrai pas ta justice cachée dans mon cœur ; je publierai ta fidélité et ton salut, je ne tairai pas ta bonté et ta vérité à la grande assemblée.
12. Toi, Yahweh, ne me ferme pas tes miséricordes ; que ta bonté et ta vérité me gardent toujours !
13. Car des maux sans nombre m’environnent ; mes iniquités m’ont saisi, et je ne puis voir ; elles sont plus nombreuses que les cheveux de ma tête, et mon cœur m’abandonne.
14. Qu’il te plaise, Yahweh, de me délivrer ! Yahweh, hâte-toi de me secourir !
15. Qu’ils soient confus et honteux tous ensemble, ceux qui cherchent mon âme pour la perdre ! Qu’ils reculent et rougissent, ceux qui désirent ma ruine !
16. Qu’ils soient dans la stupeur à cause de leur honte, ceux qui me disent : « Ah ! ah ! »
17. Qu’ils soient dans l’allégresse et se réjouissent en toi, tous ceux qui te cherchent ! Qu’ils disent sans cesse : « Gloire à Yahweh, » ceux qui aiment ton salut !
18. Moi, je suis pauvre et indigent, mais le Seigneur prendra soin de moi. Tu es mon aide et mon libérateur : mon Dieu, ne tarde pas !
Latin
Biblia Vulgata Clementina (1598), Migne witness (1880)
1. In finem. Psalmus ipsi David.
2. [Beatus qui intelligit super egenum et pauperem: in die mala liberabit eum Dominus.
3. Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum ejus.
4. Dominus opem ferat illi super lectum doloris ejus; universum stratum ejus versasti in infirmitate ejus.
5. Ego dixi: Domine, miserere mei; sana animam meam, quia peccavi tibi.
6. Inimici mei dixerunt mala mihi: Quando morietur, et peribit nomen ejus?
7. Et si ingrediebatur ut videret, vana loquebatur; cor ejus congregavit iniquitatem sibi. Egrediebatur foras et loquebatur.
8. In idipsum adversum me susurrabant omnes inimici mei; adversum me cogitabant mala mihi.
9. Verbum iniquum constituerunt adversum me: Numquid qui dormit non adjiciet ut resurgat?
10. Etenim homo pacis meæ in quo speravi, qui edebat panes meos, magnificavit super me supplantationem.
11. Tu autem, Domine, miserere mei, et resuscita me; et retribuam eis.
12. In hoc cognovi quoniam voluisti me, quoniam non gaudebit inimicus meus super me.
13. Me autem propter innocentiam suscepisti; et confirmasti me in conspectu tuo in æternum.
14. Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël a sæculo et usque in sæculum. Fiat, fiat.]
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
1. Unto the end. A psalm for David himself.
2. [Blessed is he who understands concerning the needy and the poor; on the evil day the Lord shall deliver him.
3. May the Lord preserve him, give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth, and not deliver him into the soul of his enemies.
4. May the Lord bring him help upon his bed of sorrow; you have turned all his bedding in his sickness.
5. I said: Lord, have mercy on me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.
6. My enemies spoke evils against me: When shall he die, and his name perish?
7. And if one entered to see me, he spoke vain things; his heart gathered iniquity to itself. He went outside and spoke.
8. All my enemies whispered together against me; against me they devised evils for me.
9. They established an unjust word against me: Shall one who sleeps never rise again?
10. Indeed, the man at peace with me, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly raised his heel against me.
11. But you, Lord, have mercy on me and raise me up; and I shall repay them.
12. By this I have known that you desired me, because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
13. But you have taken me up because of my innocence, and established me in your sight forever.
14. Blessed is the Lord God of Israel from age to age. So be it, so be it.]
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
1. Pour la fin. Psaume de David lui-même.
2. [Heureux celui qui comprend l’indigent et le pauvre: au jour du malheur, le Seigneur le délivrera.
3. Que le Seigneur le garde, le fasse vivre et le rende heureux sur la terre; qu’il ne le livre pas au désir de ses ennemis.
4. Que le Seigneur lui porte secours sur son lit de douleur; tu as retourné toute sa couche dans sa maladie.
5. Moi, j’ai dit: Seigneur, prends pitié de moi; guéris mon âme, car j’ai péché contre toi.
6. Mes ennemis ont dit du mal contre moi: Quand mourra-t-il, et quand son nom périra-t-il?
7. Et s’il entrait pour me voir, il disait des vanités; son cœur amassait l’iniquité en lui-même. Il sortait dehors et parlait.
8. Tous mes ennemis murmuraient ensemble contre moi; contre moi ils méditaient mon malheur.
9. Ils ont établi contre moi une parole inique: Celui qui dort ne recommencera-t-il donc pas à se relever?
10. Même l’homme avec qui j’étais en paix, en qui j’avais espéré et qui mangeait mes pains, a magnifié contre moi la supplantation.
11. Mais toi, Seigneur, prends pitié de moi et relève-moi; et je les rétribuerai.
12. À ceci j’ai reconnu que tu m’as voulu: mon ennemi ne se réjouira pas à mon sujet.
13. Quant à moi, tu m’as soutenu à cause de mon innocence, et tu m’as affermi devant ta face pour l’éternité.
14. Béni soit le Seigneur, Dieu d’Israël, depuis le siècle et jusqu’au siècle. Ainsi soit-il, ainsi soit-il.]
Concepts in this passage
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Ether and field
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God
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Justice
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Verses in this chapter
- Verse 1I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
- Verse 2He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
- Verse 3He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
- Verse 4Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.
- Verse 5Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared ba…
- Verse 6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
- Verse 7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
- Verse 8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
- Verse 9I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, LORD, you know.
- Verse 10I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed …
- Verse 11Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
- Verse 12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than t…
- Verse 13Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
- Verse 14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to…
- Verse 15Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
- Verse 16Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
- Verse 17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.