# Psalm 41

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###### v1 
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. 

###### v2 
Yahweh 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. 

###### v3 
Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. 

###### v4 
I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you." 

###### v5 
My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?" 

###### v6 
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. 

###### v7 
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. 

###### v8 
"An evil disease", they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more." 

###### v9 
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. 

###### v10 
But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. 

###### v11 
By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me. 

###### v12 
As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. 

###### v13 
Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

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