41 For the musical director: a song by David.

41 People who’re concerned for the weak will be blessed—

→in the day of trouble, Yahweh will rescue them.

2 Yahweh will protect them and keep them alive,

and they will be blessed on the earth.

Yahweh will not hand them over to their enemies.

3 Yahweh will support them on the bed of suffering.

You’ll make their bed of sickness into a bed of healing.

4 I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me.

Heal my soul, because I’ve sinned against you.”

5 My enemies speak evil against me, saying,

‘When will he die and be forgotten?’

6 If my enemy comes to see me, he speaks hollow words.

He plots in his mind how to destroy me.

When he leaves me, he tells others about it.

7 All who hate me, whisper together against me.

They plot how to make trouble for me.

8 They say, “An evil disease has badly affected him.

Now that he’s down flat, he’ll never get up again.”

9 Indeed, even my own close friend who I trusted,

who had meals at my place,

has betrayed me.

10 But Yahweh, you have mercy on me and help me up

so that I can pay them back.

11 Because my enemy doesn’t defeat me,

that’s how I know that you’re pleased with me.

12 As for me, you support me in my integrity

and will keep me in your mind forever.

13 May Israel’s God Yahweh be praised from everlasting to everlasting.

Let it be so, yes, let it be.