Psalm 41:1-13
To the director. A melody of David.
41 Happy is anyone acting with consideration toward the lowly one;+In the day of calamity Jehovah will provide escape for him.+
2 Jehovah himself will guard him and preserve him alive.+He will be pronounced happy in the earth;+And you cannot possibly give him over to the soul* of his enemies.+
3 Jehovah himself will sustain him upon a divan of illness;+All his bed you will certainly change during his sickness.+
4 As for me, I said: “O Jehovah, show me favor.+Do heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.”+
5 As for my enemies, they say what is bad concerning me:+“When will he die and his name actually perish?”
6 And if one does come to see [me], untruth is what his heart will speak;+He will gather up for himself something hurtful;He will go out; on the outside he will speak [of it].+
7 Unitedly against me all those hating me whisper to one another;+Against me they keep scheming something bad for me:+
8 “A good-for-nothing thing* is poured out upon him;+Now that he has lain down, he will not get up again.”+
9 Also the man at peace with me, in whom I trusted,+Who was eating my bread,+ has magnified [his] heel against me.*+
10 As for you, O Jehovah, show me favor and cause me to get up,+That I may pay them back.+
11 By this I do know that you have found delight in me,Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.+
12 As for me, because of my integrity you have upheld me,+And you will set me before your face to time indefinite.+
13 Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel+From time indefinite even to time indefinite.+Amen and Amen.*+
Footnotes
^ Or, “to the soulful desire.” Heb., beneʹphesh; Lat., aʹni·mam; LXX, “in the hands.” See 35:25 ftn.
^ Lit., “A thing of belial (worthlessness).”
^ “Magnified [his] heel against me,” MLXXVg.
