| 41.1 |
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. |
| 41.2 |
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. |
| 41.3 |
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. |
| 41.4 |
I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.” |
| 41.5 |
My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?” |
| 41.6 |
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. |
| 41.7 |
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. |
| 41.8 |
“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.” |
| 41.9 |
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. |
| 41.10 |
But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. |
| 41.11 |
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me. |
| 41.12 |
As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. |
| 41.13 |
Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. |
