Psalms 41

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up 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 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against 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 you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

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

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

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

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

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

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