Psalm 41

Tree of Life Version

¹ For the music director: a psalm of David.
² Blessed is the one who considers the wretched—
Adonai will deliver him in the evil day.
³ Adonai will protect him and keep him alive.
He will be made blessed in the land.
You will not give him over to the desire of his foes.
⁴ Adonai will strengthen him on his sickbed.
May You restore him completely from his bed.
⁵ I said: “Adonai, have mercy on me.
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
⁶ My enemies speak evil about me:
“When will he die and his name perish?”
⁷ And if someone of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely.
He stores up evil in his heart,
then he goes out and chatters.
⁸ All who hate me whisper together about me
They imagine the worst about me:
⁹ “Something evil was poured into him—
he will not get up again from the place where he lies.”
¹⁰ Even my own close friend,
whom I trusted, who ate my bread,
has lifted up his heel against me.^[a]
11 But You, Adonai, have mercy on me,
and raise me up, so I may repay them.
¹² By this I know that You delight in me:
that my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.
¹³ You uphold me in my integrity
and set me before Your face forever.
¹⁴ Blessed be Adonai, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
    Amen and amen!