1 I waited and waited for the LORD, and he bent down to me and heard my cry for help.
2 He brought me up out of the roaring pit, out of the muddy clay, and set my feet on a rock; he made my steps firm.
3 He put in my mouth a new song, praise to our God; many will see and fear and trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man who has made the LORD his confidence, and has not turned to the arrogant or to those who swerve into falsehood.
5 You have done many things, O LORD my God, your wonders and your plans for us; there is no one to set beside you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are too many to number.
6 In sacrifice and offering you took no pleasure; ears you have dug for me; burnt offering and sin offering you did not ask for.
7 Then I said, "Look, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written about me.
8 To do your will, my God, is my delight, and your law is in the middle of my inward parts."
9 I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness in the great assembly; look, I do not hold back my lips, O LORD; you know it.
10 Your righteousness I have not covered within my heart; your faithfulness and your salvation I have declared; I have not hidden your steadfast love and your truth from the great assembly.
11 You, O LORD, will not hold back your compassion from me; your steadfast love and your truth will always guard me.
12 For evils past counting have closed around me; my iniquities have caught up with me, and I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head, and my heart has abandoned me.
13 Be willing, O LORD, to rescue me; O LORD, hurry to help me.
14 Let them be ashamed and humiliated together who seek my soul to snatch it away; let them be driven back and disgraced who take pleasure in my harm.
15 Let them be desolate on account of their shame, those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
16 Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; let those who love your salvation say always, "The LORD be magnified!"
17 But I am afflicted and needy; the Lord thinks of me. You are my help and the one who rescues me; my God, do not hold back.