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.

For the chief musician. A psalm of David. Blessed is he who is concerned for the weak; in the day of trouble, Yahweh will rescue 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.

Yahweh will preserve him and keep him alive, and he will be blessed on the earth; Yahweh will not turn him over to the will of his enemies.

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

Yahweh will support him on the bed of suffering; you will make his bed of sickness into a bed of healing.

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

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

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.

If my enemy comes to see me, he says worthless things; his heart gathers up my disaster for itself; when he goes away from me, he tells others about 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 hope for my hurt.

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

They say, “An evil disease holds on tightly to him; now that he is lying down, he will rise up no more.”

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

Indeed, even my own close friend, in whom I trusted, who ate 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 you, Yahweh, have mercy on me and raise me up so that I may pay them back.

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 you delight in me, for 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.

As for me, you support me in my integrity and will keep me before your face forever.

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

May Yahweh, the God of Israel be praised from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.