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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1For the choir director. A Davidic psalm. Happy is one who cares for the poor; the LORD will save him in a day of adversity. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2The LORD will keep him and preserve him; he will be blessed in the land. You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed; You will heal him on the bed where he lies. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I said, " LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You." |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5My enemies speak maliciously about me:" When will he die and be forgotten?" |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When one of them comes to visit, he speaks deceitfully; he stores up evil in his heart; he goes out and talks. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7All who hate me whisper together about me; they plan to harm me." |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Lethal poison has been poured into him, and he won't rise again from where he lies!" |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Even my friend in whom I trusted, one who ate my bread, has raised his heel against me. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But You, LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up; then I will repay them. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11By this I know that You delight in me: my enemy does not shout in triumph over me. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You supported me because of my integrity and set me in Your presence forever. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13May Yahweh, the God of Israel, be praised from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and amen. |
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