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Psalm 41

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

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