Psalms 41

1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

To the Chief Musician. A Melody of David. How happy is he that is attentive to the poor, In the day of calamity, will Yahweh deliver him:

2 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

Yahweh, will preserve him and keep him alive, And he shall be pronounced happy in the land, Do not then give him up at the desire of his enemies!

3 The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.

Yahweh, will sustain him upon the bed of sickness, All his couch, hast thou transformed in his disease.

4 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

I, said—O Yahweh, show me favour, heal thou my soul, for I have sinned against thee:

5 My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

Mine enemies, speak ill of me, When will he die, and his name perish?

6 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.

And, if he have come to see me, Falsehood, doth he speak, His own heart, gathereth iniquity to itself, he goeth forth, abroad he telleth it.

7 All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me.

Together—against me, do all who hate me whisper among themselves, Against me, devise they hurt for me.

8 They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?

An infliction of the Abandoned One hath been fixed upon him, and, now that he hath lien down, he will not again rise.

9 For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.

Even the man whom I used to salute, in whom I put confidence, who used to eat my bread, —hath magnified his heel against me!

10 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I will requite them.

But, thou, O Yahweh, show me favour and raise me up, That I may repay them.

11 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.

Hereby, do I know that thou delightest in me, In that mine enemy shall not raise a shout over me.

12 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever.

But, as for me, In my blamelessness, hast thou held me fast, And hast caused me to stand before thee unto times age-abiding.

13 Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From the age that is past, even unto the age yet to come: Amen and Amen!