Psalm 40:11 {39:12}
Good News Translation
LORD, I know you will never stop being merciful to me. Your love and loyalty will always keep me safe.

New Revised Standard Version
Do not, O LORD, withhold your mercy from me; let your steadfast love and your faithfulness keep me safe forever.

Contemporary English Version
You, LORD, never fail to have pity on me; your love and faithfulness always keep me secure.

New American Bible
LORD, may you not withhold your compassion from me; May your mercy and your faithfulness continually protect me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.

Psalm 69:13,16 But as for me, my prayer is to thee, O Lord; for the time of thy good pleasure, O God. In the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation. . . .

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Psalm 23:6 And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.

Psalm 43:3 Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

Psalm 57:3 He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

Psalm 61:7 He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?

Psalm 85:10 Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed.

Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

Context
I Waited Patiently for the LORD
10I have not hid thy justice within my heart: I have declared thy truth and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy mercy and thy truth from a great council. 11Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me.12For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.…
Cross References
Psalm 25:10
All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 43:3
Sent forth thy light and thy truth: they have conducted me, and brought me unto thy holy hill, and into thy tabernacles.

Psalm 57:3
He hath sent from heaven and delivered me: he hath made them a reproach that trod upon me. God hath sent his mercy and his truth,

Psalm 61:7
He abideth for ever in the sight of God: his mercy and truth who shall search?

Psalm 77:9
Or will God forget to shew mercy? or will he in his anger shut up his mercies?

Psalm 91:4
He will overshadow thee with his shoulders: and under his wings thou shalt trust.

Proverbs 20:28
Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is strengthened by clemency.

Psalm 40:10
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