| 41 | Psalms | ||
| Psalm of the Compassionate. Psalm 41(v40) | |||
| 1 | Happy the man who has a concern for the helpless! The LORD will save him in time of trouble. | ← | |
| 2 | The LORD protects him and gives him life, making him secure in the land; the LORD never leaves him to the greed of his enemies. | ||
| 3 | He nurses him on his sick-bed; he turns his bed when he is ill. | ||
| 4 | But I said, 'LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against thee.' | ||
| 5 | 'His case is desperate,' my enemies say; 'when will he die, and his line become extinct?' | ||
| 6 | All who visit me speak from an empty heart, alert to gather bad news; then they go out to spread it abroad. | ||
| 7 | All who hate me whisper together about me and love to make the worst of everything: | ||
| 8 | 'An evil spell is cast upon him; he is laid on his bed, and will rise no more.' | ||
| 9 | Even the friend whom I trusted, who ate at my table , exults over my misfortune. | ||
| 10 | O LORD, be gracious and restore me, that I may pay them out to the full . | ||
| 11 | Then I shall know that thou delightest in me and that my enemy will not triumph over me. | ||
| 12 | But I am upheld by thee because of my innocence; thou keepest me for ever in thy sight. | ||
| 13 | Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen, Amen. | ||
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