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Psalm 41

1 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Blessed is he who considers the poor: The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

1 Dignify those who are down on their luck; you'll feel good - that's what God does.

2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, He shall be blessed on the eretz, And he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

2 God looks after us all, makes us robust with life - Lucky to be in the land, we're free from enemy worries.

3 The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, And restore him from his bed of illness.

3 Whenever we're sick and in bed, God becomes our nurse, nurses us back to health.

4 I said, "LORD, have mercy on me. Heal me, for I have sinned against you."

4 I said, "God, be gracious! Put me together again - my sins have torn me to pieces."

5 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?"

5 My enemies are wishing the worst for me; they make bets on what day I will die.

6 If he come to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

6 If someone comes to see me, he mouths empty platitudes, All the while gathering gossip about me to entertain the street-corner crowd.

7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

7 These "friends" who hate me whisper slanders all over town. They form committees to plan misery for me.

8 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more."

8 The rumor goes out, "He's got some dirty, deadly disease. The doctors have given up on him."

9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who ate bread with me, Has lifted up his heel against me.

9 Even my best friend, the one I always told everything - he ate meals at my house all the time! - has bitten my hand.

10 But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, That I may repay them.

10 God, give grace, get me up on my feet. I'll show them a thing or two.

11 By this I know that you delight in me, Because my enemy doesn't triumph over me.

11 Meanwhile, I'm sure you're on my side - no victory shouts yet from the enemy camp!

12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, And set me in your presence forever.

12 You know me inside and out, you hold me together, you never fail to stand me tall in your presence so I can look you in the eye.

13 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, From everlasting and to everlasting! Amein and amein.

13 Blessed is God, Israel's God, always, always, always. Yes. Yes. Yes.

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