Psalm 41

1 For the one directing. A Psalm of David. <span class=|reftext|><a href=|#|><b>1</b></a> Blessed [is] he who acts wisely toward the poor; in a day of evil, YHWH will rescue him.

2 YHWH will guard him and keep him alive; he will be blessed in the land, and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

3 YHWH will support him on [his] couch of illness; You turn over all his bed in his sickness.

4 I said, “O YHWH, be gracious to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

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

6 And if one comes to see [me], he speaks emptiness; his heart gathers iniquity for himself; he goes out—at the street he speaks.

7 All those hating me, they whisper together against me; against me they devise evil to me:

8 “Let a thing of destruction be poured into him, and [he] who lies down shall not rise up again.”

9 Even a man of my welfare, he in whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted up the heel against me.

10 But You, O YHWH, show favor to me and raise me up, that I may repay them!

11 By this I know that You have delighted in me: That my enemy will not shout over me.

12 And I, in my integrity, may You take hold of me and set me before Your face forever.

13 Blessed [be] YHWH, God of Israel, from forever and even to forever! Amen and Amen.