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Psalm 40:5-14

5. Blessed are those who have put their trust in the Lord:
   who have not turned to the proud,
   or to those who stray after false gods.
6. O Lord my God, great are the wonderful things you have done,
   and the things you have in mind for us:
   there is none to be compared with you.
7. I would proclaim them and speak of them:
   but they are more than can be numbered.
8. Sacrifice and offering you do not desire,
   but you have opened my ears to hear:
   burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin you have not required of me.
9. Then I said, 'Look, I have come:
   in the scroll of the book it is written that I should do your will.
10. I delight to do your will O my God:
    truly your law is in my heart.
11. I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great assembly:
    I did not restrain my lips, as you will know O Lord.
12. I have not kept your goodness hidden in my heart:
    I have spoken of your faithfulness and you saving help.
13. I have not concealed your steadfast love:
    nor your truth from the great assembly.
14. Lord, do not withhold from me your tender care:
    let your love and faithfulness ever preserve me.