Psalm 41

¹  Blessed is he who considers the poor.
    Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
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 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed,
    and restore him from his bed of illness.
⁴ I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me!
    Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
⁵ My enemies speak evil against me:
    “When will he die, and his name perish?”
⁶ If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
    His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
    When he goes abroad, he tells it.
⁷ All who hate me whisper together against me.
    They imagine the worst for me.
⁸ “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him.
    Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
⁹ Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
    who ate bread with me,
    has lifted up his heel against me.