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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David [Beloved].
1 Blessed is he who considers the poor.
Adonai will deliver him in the day of evil.
2 Adonai 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.
3 Adonai will sustain him on his sickbed,
and restore him from his bed of illness.
4 I said, “Adonai, have mercy on me!
Heal me, for I have sinned ·deviated (from the standard goal)· against you.”
5 My enemies speak evil against me:
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
His heart gathers vain striving of iniquity to itself.
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7 All 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.”
9 *Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
who ate bread with me,
has lifted up his heel against me. †
10 But you, Adonai, have mercy on me, and raise me up,
that I may repay them.
11 By this I know that you delight in me,
because my enemy does not triumph over me.
12 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity,
and set me in your presence forever.
13 Blessed be Adonai , the God of Israel [God prevails], ‡
from everlasting and to everlasting!
Amen v'Amen ·So be it and So be it·.
* 41:9 . MP: The Messiah’s betrayer is a friend whom he breaks bread with. Consider more details about this betrayal: sold for 30 pieces of silver (Ex 21:32; Zech 11:12; Matt 26:15); the money is thrown down in God’s house (Zech 11:13b; Matt 27:5a); the price used to buy potter’s field for strangers’ burial graves (Zech 11:13b; Matt 27:7). (Zech 11:13b; Matt 27:7). (See also Ps 55:12-14; Zech 11:12-13a). (Mark 14:17-20; John 13:18-27) † 41:9 . Paraphrase Quoted in John 13:18, 17:12 with Acts 1:16-20 ‡ 41:13 . Quoted in Luke 1:68