Psalm 41, side by side

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.

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

²The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to surrender him to the will of his foes.

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 bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

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

⁴I said, “O LORD, be gracious to 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 say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

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

⁶My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

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 against me; they imagine the worst for me:

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

⁸“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

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

⁹Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, 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, O LORD, be gracious to 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, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

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

¹²In my integrity You uphold me 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 to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

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