1 I waited patiently for the LORD.

2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit,

3 He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God.

4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust,

5 Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done,

6 Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire.

7 Then I said, “Behold, I have come.

8 I delight to do your will, my God.

9 I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly.

10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart.

11 Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD.

12 For innumerable evils have surrounded me.

13 Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me.

14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it.

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.

17 But I am poor and needy.