40

For King & Country retell Psalm 40 almost line for line in "40" — "I waited patiently for the Lord, He inclined and heard my cry, He lifts me up out of the pit, out of the miry clay." The song doesn't modernize the language or soften the imagery; the pit and the clay stay exactly as unglamorous as the psalm originally described them.

"You set my feet upon a rock and made my footsteps firm" keeps the psalm's next image intact too — stability specifically following instability, not replacing the need for it. "I will sing, sing a new song" repeats as the natural response to that rescue, treating worship less as a separate obligation and more as the direct result of what just happened.

The extended "how long to sing this song?" outro introduces a tension the original psalm doesn't resolve either — celebrating a rescue already given while still asking how long the singing, and the waiting behind it, has to continue.