The Psalms

chapter 41


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verse #1

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.


verse #2

Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.


verse #3

Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.


verse #4

I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”


verse #5

My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”


verse #6

If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.


verse #7

All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.


verse #8

“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”


verse #9

Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.


verse #10

But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.


verse #11

By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.


verse #12

As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.


verse #13

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

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