A Psalm of David. *

I waited patiently for [Expecting I expected] the LORD; and he inclined unto me,
and heard my cry.
² He bought me up also out of an horrible pit,
out of the miry clay,
and set my feet upon a rock,
and established my goings.
³ And put a new song in my mouth,
even praise unto our God:
many shall see it,
and fear,
and shall trust in the LORD.
⁴ Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust,
and respecteth not [and not he looks upon] the proud,
nor such as turn aside to lies.
⁵ Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done,
and thy thoughts which are to us-ward:
they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee [there is nothing to order unto you]:
if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
⁶ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire;
mine ears hast thou opened:
burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
⁷ Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,
⁸ I delight to do thy will, O my God:
yea, thy law is within my heart.
⁹ I have preached righteousness in the great congregation:
lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.
¹⁰ I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart;
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 [Until nothing of numbering] evils have compassed me about:
mine iniquities have taken hold upon me,
so that I am not able to look up;
they are more than the hairs of mine head:
therefore my heart faileth me.
¹³ Be pleased, O LORD, to deliver me:
O LORD, make haste to help me.
¹⁴ Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it;
let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.
¹⁵ Let them be desolate for a reward 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. ¹⁷ But I am poor and needy;
yet the Lord thinketh upon me:
thou art my help and my deliverer;
make no tarring, O my God.

* NOTE: On Opening and Closing Comments in the Psalms.
[Some commentators take the Psalm in Habakkuk 3 to be a standard model for the Psalms.
Habakkuk's Psalm begins with the name of the composer (Habakkuk) and a musical notation ("upon Shigionoth").
It closes with a dedication or a "send to" notice ("To the chief singer on my stringed instruments").
I have arranged similar material, where it is found in the Psalter, in accord with the model in Habakkuk.]