1 For the one directing. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he who acts wisely toward the poor; in a day of evil, YHWH will rescue him.

2 YHWH will guard him and keep him alive; he will be blessed in the land, and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

3 YHWH will support him on his couch of illness; You turn over all his bed in his sickness.

4 I said, “O YHWH, be gracious to me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

5 My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die and his name perish?”

6 And if one comes to see me, he speaks emptiness; his heart gathers iniquity for himself; he goes out—at the street he speaks.

7 All those hating me, they whisper together against me; against me they devise evil to me:

Psalms 41:1-7, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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