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.


In Context

14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, |Aha! Aha!|

16 Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, |Let Yahweh be exalted!|

17 But 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.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

40:17But 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.

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 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.