Psalm
To the director. A melody of David.
41 Happy is anyone acting with consideration toward the lowly one;+
In the day of calamity Jehovah will provide escape for him.+
2 Jehovah himself will guard him and preserve him alive.+
He will be pronounced happy in the earth;+
And you cannot possibly give him over to the soul* of his enemies.+
3 Jehovah himself will sustain him upon a divan of illness;+
All his bed you will certainly change during his sickness.+
5 As for my enemies, they say what is bad concerning me:+
“When will he die and his name actually perish?”
6 And if one does come to see [me], untruth is what his heart will speak;+
He will gather up for himself something hurtful;
He will go out; on the outside he will speak [of it].+
7 Unitedly against me all those hating me whisper to one another;+
Against me they keep scheming something bad for me:+
8 “A good-for-nothing thing* is poured out upon him;+
Now that he has lain down, he will not get up again.”+
9 Also the man at peace with me, in whom I trusted,+
Who was eating my bread,+ has magnified [his] heel against me.*+
11 By this I do know that you have found delight in me,
Because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.+