17But I am a beggar and poor : the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector : O my God, be not slack.


In Context

14 Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me.

15 Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me : 'T is well, 't is well.

16 Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee : and let such as love thy salvation say always : The Lord be magnified.

17 But I am a beggar and poor : the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector : O my God, be not slack.

Psalm 40:17 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

40:17Yet I am poor and needy; may the Lord think of me. You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not delay.

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:17But I [am] poor and needy; [yet] the Lord thinketh upon me: thou [art] my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

40:17But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

40:17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no delay, O my God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

40:17And I am poor and needy, The Lord doth devise for me. My help and my deliverer art Thou, O my God, tarry Thou not.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

40:17But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinks on me: you are my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.