^1aTo the choirmaster.↑

A Psalm of David.

^1bHappy is he who attends to the poor;

On the evil day,

The Lord will deliver him.

²The Lord will protect him

And preserve him alive.

And he will be pronounced happy on the earth,

And you will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

³The Lord will support him on his sickbed;

You will overturn all causes of him being bedridden in his illness.

⁴I have said,

“O Lord have mercy on me;

Heal me inwardly,

For I have sinned against you.”

⁵My enemies speak an evil thing of me:

“When will he die,

And his name perish?”

⁶And if anyone comes to see what false thing he can say,

His heart accumulates iniquity;

He goes out into the open

And says it.

⁷All those who hate me

Whisper among themselves against me;

They conceive evil for me.

⁸A mischievous deed has taken shape in their plan,

Whereby, “When he lies down,

He will not rise again.”

⁹Even a man at peace with me,

In whom I trusted

¹⁰But you, O Lord, have mercy on me,

And raise me up,

So that I can repay them.

¹¹By this I know that you have pleasure in me:

My enemy will not gloat over me.

¹²As for me, you take hold of me in my integrity,

And you place me before yourself age-abidingly.

¹³Blessed be the Lord God of Israel

From age to age.

Amen and amen.

Reference(s) in Chapter 41: v.9 ↔ John 13:18.