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Psalm 41 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Blessing and Suffering of the Godly

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

41 Blessed is he who considers the ^[a]poor;
The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
²The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
And he will be blessed on the earth;
^(A)You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
³The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
You will ^[b]sustain him on his sickbed.

⁴I said, “Lord, be merciful to me;
^(B)Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
⁵My enemies speak evil of me:
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
⁶And if he comes to see me, he speaks ^[c]lies;
His heart gathers iniquity to itself;
When he goes out, he tells it.

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they ^[d]devise my hurt.
⁸“An^[e] evil disease,” they say, “clings to him.
And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more.”
⁹^(C)Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
^(D)Who ate my bread,
Has ^[f]lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰But You, O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up,
That I may repay them.
¹¹By this I know that You are well pleased with me,
Because my enemy does not triumph over me.
¹²As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
And ^(E)set me before Your face forever.

¹³^(F)Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
From everlasting to everlasting!
Amen and Amen.

New King James Version (NKJV)