Psalms 41 DBY
Summary: Psalm 41 opens with a beatitude for those who consider the poor, promising God's care in their own time of illness (v. 1-3), before turning to lament the psalmist's own sickbed, where enemies visit only to gather material for slander. Its most piercing line describes betrayal by an intimate, "even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me" (v. 9), words Jesus applies to Judas in John 13. It closes both the psalm and Book I of the Psalter with a doxology: "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen" (v. 13).
1To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that understandeth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.
2Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
3Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness.
4As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
5Mine enemies wish me evil: When will he die, and his name perish?
6And if one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: he goeth abroad, he telleth [it].
7All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.
8A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will rise up no more.
9Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.
10But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
11By this I know that thou delightest in me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
12But as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
13Blessed be Jehovah, theGod of Israel, from eternity to eternity! Amen, and Amen.
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