Psalms 41:1-8

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.

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.

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

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

⁵My enemies speak evil against me: “When will 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.

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

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