Psalms 41
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Psalm 41
Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
1 #
Ps 82.3, 4; Prov 14.21 Happy are those who consider the poor;#41.1 Or weak
the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.
2 #
Ps 27.12; 37.22, 28 The Lord protects them and keeps them alive;
they are called happy in the land.
You do not give them up to the will of their enemies.
3 #
Ps 6.6
The Lord sustains them on their sickbed;
in their illness you heal all their infirmities.#41.3 Heb you change all his bed
4 #
Ps 6.2; 51.4 As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
5 #
Ps 38.12
My enemies wonder in malice
when I will die and my name perish.
6 #
Ps 12.2
And when they come to see me, they utter empty words
while their hearts gather mischief;
when they go out, they tell it abroad.
7 #
Ps 56.5
All who hate me whisper together about me;
they imagine the worst for me.
8 #
Ps 71.10, 11 They think that a deadly thing has fastened on me,
that I will not rise again from where I lie.
9 #
Job 19.19; Ps 55.12; Jn 13.18 Even my close friend in whom I trusted,
who ate of my bread, has lifted the heel against me.
10 #
Ps 3.3
But you, O Lord, be gracious to me,
and raise me up, that I may repay them.
11 #
Ps 25.2; 147.11 By this I know that you are pleased with me:
because my enemy has not triumphed over me.
12 #
Job 36.7; Ps 37.17 But you have upheld me because of my integrity
and set me in your presence forever.
13 #
Ps 106.48
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.
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