Psalm 41, side by side

¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

¹Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

²The LORD 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.

²The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

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

³The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

⁴I said, “the LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

⁴I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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

⁵Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

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

⁶And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

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

⁷All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

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

⁸An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him: and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

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

⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

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

¹⁰But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.

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

¹¹By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

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

¹²And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.

¹³Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

¹³Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.