Psalms - Chapter 41 - A Conservative Version
- Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
- LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth. And thou do not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
- LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness.
- I said, O LORD, have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
- My enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish?
- And if he comes to see [me], he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
- All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.
- An evil disease, [they say], clings firm to him. And now that he lays he shall rise up no more.
- Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
- But thou, O LORD, have mercy upon me, and raise me up that I may requite them.
- By this I know that thou delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
- And as for me, thou uphold me in my integrity, and set me before thy face forever.
- Blessed be LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.