Psalm 41

Psalm 40

For the end, a Psalm of David.

¹I waited patiently for the Lord; and he attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication. ²And he brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay: and he set my feet on a rock, and ordered my goings aright. ³And he put a new song into my mouth, even a hymn to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall hope in the Lord. ⁴Blessed is the man whose hope is in the name of the Lord, and who has not regarded vanities and false frenzies.

⁵O Lord my God, thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, and in thy thoughts there is none who shall be likened to thee: I declared and spoke of them: they exceeded number. ⁶ ¹Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not; but a body hast thou prepared me: whole-burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou didst not require. ⁷Then I said, Behold, I ²come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me, ⁸I desired to do thy will, O my God, and thy law in the midst of mine heart. ⁹I have preached righteousness in the great congregation; lo! I will not refrain my lips; O Lord, thou knowest my righteousness. ¹⁰I have not hid thy truth within my heart, and I have declared thy salvation; I have not hid thy mercy and thy truth from the great congregation.

¹¹But thou, Lord, remove not thy compassion far from me; thy mercy and thy truth have helped me continually. ¹²For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied

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more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me. ¹³Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, draw nigh to help me. ¹⁴Let those that seek my soul, to destroy it, be ashamed and confounded together; let those that wish me evil be turned backward and put to shame. ¹⁵Let those that say to me, Aha, aha, quickly receive shame for their reward. ¹⁶Let all those that seek thee, O Lord, exult and rejoice in thee; and let them that love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. ¹⁷But I am poor and needy; the Lord will take care of me; thou art my helper, and my defender, O my God, delay not.

Psalm 41

For the end, a Psalm of David.

¹Blessed is the man who thinks, on the poor and needy: the Lord shall deliver him in an evil day. ² May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemy. ³May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; thou hast made all his bed in his sickness.

⁴I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. ⁵Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish? ⁶And if he came to see me, his heart spoke vainly; he gathered iniquity to himself; he went forth and spoke in like manner. ⁷All my enemies whispered against me; against me they devised my hurt. ⁸They denounced a wicked word against me, saying, Now that he lies, shall he not rise up again? ⁹For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, ³who ate my bread, lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰But thou, O Lord, have compassion upon me, and raise me up, and I shall requite them. ¹¹By this I know that thou hast delighted in me, because mine enemy shall not rejoice over me. ¹²But thou didst help me because of mine innocence, and hast established me before thee for ever. ¹³Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. So be it, so be it.