“I waited for the Lord my God”


 
Scottish Metrical Psalm 40 verses 1 to 6

(1)

I waited for the Lord my God,
      and patiently did bear;
At length to me he did incline
      my voice and cry to hear.

(2)

He took me from a fearful pit,
     and from the miry clay,
And on a rock he set my feet,
     establishing my way.

(3)

He put a new song in my mouth,
     our God to magnify:
Many shall see it and shall fear,
     and on the Lord rely.

(4)

O blessed is the man whose trust
     upon the Lord relies;
Respecting not the proud, nor such
     as turn aside to lies.

(5)

O Lord my God, full many are
     the wonders thou hast done;
Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward far
     above all thoughts are gone:

(6)

In order none can reckon them
     to thee: if them declare,
And speak of them I would, they more
     than can be number'd are.