Psalms 41

1 TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. O the blessedness of him Who is acting wisely to the poor, In a day of evil YHWH delivers him.

Blessed is he who considers a poor man. Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.

2 YHWH preserves him and revives him, He is blessed in the land, And You do not give him into the will of his enemies.

Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth. And thou do not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

3 YHWH supports [him] on a bed of sickness, You have turned his bed in his weakness.

Jehovah will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness.

4 I said, “O YHWH, favor me, Heal my soul, for I sinned against You,”

I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.

5 My enemies say evil of me: When he dies—his name has perished!

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

6 And if he came to see—he speaks vanity, His heart gathers iniquity to itself, He goes out—at the street he speaks.

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

7 All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.

8 A worthless thing is poured out on him, And because he lay down he does not rise again.

An evil disease, they say, clings firm to him. And now that he lies he shall rise up no more.

9 Even my ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, Made the heel great against me,

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

10 And You, YHWH, favor me, And cause me to rise, And I give repayment to them.

But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up that I may requite them.

11 By this I have known, That You have delighted in me, Because my enemy does not shout over me.

By this I know that thou delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.

12 As for me, in my integrity, You have taken hold on me, And cause me to stand before You for all time.

And as for me, thou uphold me in my integrity, and set me before thy face forever.

13 Blessed [is] YHWH, God of Israel, From age to age. Amen and Amen.

Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Truly, and Truly.