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.

“To the chief musician, a psalm of David.” Happy is he that careth for the poor: on the day of evil will the Lord deliver him.

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.

The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy on the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the revengeful desire of his enemies.

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

The Lord will sustain him upon the bed of painful disease: thou changest all his couch in his sickness.

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

I said, Lord, be gracious unto 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 of me, 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 come to see [me], he speaketh falsely: his heart gathereth wickedness to itself; he goeth abroad [and] speaketh it.

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

Altogether whisper against me all that hate me: against me do they devise my injury.

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

“His godless deed [say they] is poured out over him: as he lieth there he will never more rise up again.”

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

Yea, even the man that should have sought my welfare, in whom I trusted, who eateth my bread, hath 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 Lord, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite it unto them.

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

By this do I know that thou art pleased with me, that my enemy doth 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.

But as for me, thou upholdest me in my integrity, and placest me before thy presence for ever.

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

Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. BEGIM