- 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, “the 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, the 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.