Chapter 41
1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
2 Yahweh 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.
3 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.
4 I said, " Yahweh , have mercy on me ! Heal me , for I have sinned against you ."
5 My enemies speak evil against 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 .
7 All who hate me whisper together against me . They imagine the worst for me .
8 " An evil disease", they say, " has afflicted him . Now that he lies he shall rise up no more ."
9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me , has lifted up his heel against me .
10 But you , Yahweh , have mercy on me , 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 .
12 As for me , you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.
13 Blessed be Yahweh , the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting ! Amen and amen.