Psalms

¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil. ²The LORD 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. ³The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. ⁴I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.” ⁵My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?” ⁶If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. ⁷All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. ⁸“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.” ⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁰But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. ¹¹By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me. ¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. ¹³Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.