12 For innumerable troubles have compassed me: my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up: yea, they are more in number than the hairs of mine head: therefore mine heart hath [a]failed me.

13 Let it please thee, O Lord, to deliver me: make haste, O Lord, to help me.

14 Let them be [b]confounded and put to shame together, that seek my soul to destroy it: let them be driven backward and put to rebuke that desire mine hurt.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:12 As touching the judgment of the flesh, I was utterly destitute of all counsel, yet faith inwardly moved mine heart to pray.
  2. Psalm 40:14 He desireth that God’s mercy may contend for him against the rage of his enemies.

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