Behold, I Come (Holy Still)

BEHOLD  I  COME

based on Psalm 40:6-11

Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O YAH,

Let Your lovingkindness and Your Truth preserve me

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire

My ears you have opened and I will praise You

Then I said: Behold I come

In the Scroll of the Book it is written of me

I delight to do Your will, O my GOD

And Your LAW is within my heart

And Your LAW is within my heart

I have proclaimed a good news of righteousness to all

I was also not silent of Your love

I do not restrain my lips to praise You

O YAHUAH, my GOD, You Yourself know

Then I said: Behold I come

In the Scroll of the Book it is written of me

I delight to do Your will, O my GOD

And Your LAW is within my heart

And Your LAW is within my heart

I have hidden not Your righteousness within my heart

I’ve declared Your faithfulness and Your Salvation

I have not concealed Your loving kindness and Your Truth

From those who desire to hear, and today I praise You

Then I said: Behold I come

In the Scroll of the Book it is written of me

I delight to do Your will, O my GOD

And Your LAW is within my heart

And Your LAW is within my heart

2024

PSALM    40  (KJV)

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 YAHUAH, Thou knowest.

¹⁰ I have not hid Thy righteousness within my heart; I have 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 YAHUAH: let Thy lovingkindness and Thy truth continually preserve me.

(edits mine)

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