Psalms 41

1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.Cross-references: Deut 15:7 · Job 29:12 · Job 31:16 · Ps 34:19 · Ps 37:19 · Ps 37:26 · +19 more

2Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.Cross-references: Ps 27:12 · Ps 33:19 · Ps 37:22 · Ps 37:32 · Ps 91:3 · Ps 128:1 · +3 more

3Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.Cross-references: 2Ki 1:6 · 2Ki 1:16 · 2Ki 20:5 · Ps 73:26 · 2Cor 4:16 · Phil 2:26

4I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”Cross-references: 2Chr 30:18 · Ps 6:2 · Ps 32:5 · Ps 51:1 · Ps 103:3 · Ps 147:3 · +2 more

5My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”Cross-references: Job 18:17 · Job 20:7 · Ps 22:6 · Ps 38:12 · Ps 102:8 · Prov 10:7

6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.Cross-references: Neh 6:1 · Ps 12:2 · Prov 26:24 · Jer 20:10 · Dan 11:27 · Mic 7:5 · +3 more

7All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.Cross-references: Ps 31:13 · Ps 56:5 · Prov 16:28 · Prov 26:20 · Matt 22:15 · Matt 26:3 · +2 more

8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”Cross-references: Job 2:7 · Ps 3:2 · Ps 38:3 · Ps 71:11 · Matt 27:41 · Matt 27:63 · +1 more

9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.Cross-references: Deut 32:15 · 2Sam 15:12 · Job 19:13 · Job 19:19 · Ps 55:12 · Ps 55:20 · +6 more

10But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.Cross-references: Ps 3:3 · Ps 18:37 · Ps 21:8 · Ps 57:1 · Ps 69:22 · Ps 109:6 · +1 more

11By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.Cross-references: Ps 13:4 · Ps 25:2 · Ps 31:8 · Ps 35:25 · Ps 86:17 · Ps 124:6 · +3 more

12As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.Cross-references: Job 36:7 · Ps 16:11 · Ps 17:15 · Ps 25:21 · Ps 34:15 · Ps 37:17 · +4 more

13Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.Cross-references: Num 5:22 · Deut 27:15 · 1Ki 1:36 · 1Chr 16:36 · 1Chr 29:10 · Ps 72:18 · +12 more