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Psalm 41 · Book One · David

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

For the choirmaster

About this psalm

It opens by blessing whoever considers the poor. Then it turns to David’s own sickbed, where his enemies come to visit and go out to talk. The ninth verse is the one Jesus quoted at the last supper, the night he was betrayed: mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. The psalm closes the first book of the Psalter with a doxology.

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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;and he shall be blessed upon the earth:and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.³The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing:thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.⁴I said, LORD, be merciful unto me:heal my soul;for I have sinned against thee.⁵Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?⁶And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity:his heart gathereth iniquity to itself;when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.⁷All that hate me whisper together against me:against me do they devise my hurt.⁸An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him:and now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.¹⁰But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.¹¹By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.¹²And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.¹³Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.

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