# Psalm 41 (New King James Version)
The Blessing and Suffering of the Godly

##### Chapter 41
###### 1 Blessed _is_ he who considers the poor;  
The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.  

###### 2 The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,  
_And_ he will be blessed on the earth;  
You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.  

###### 3 The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;  
You will sustain him on his sickbed.

###### 4 I said, "Lord, be merciful to me;  
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You."  

###### 5 My enemies speak evil of me:  
"When will he die, and his name perish?"  

###### 6 And if he comes to see _me,_ he speaks lies;  
His heart gathers iniquity to itself;  
_When_ he goes out, he tells _it._

###### 7 All who hate me whisper together against me;  
Against me they devise my hurt.  

###### 8 "An evil disease," _they say,_ "clings to him.  
And _now_ that he lies down, he will rise up no more."  

###### 9 Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,  
Who ate my bread,  
Has lifted up _his_ heel against me.

###### 10 But You, O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up,  
That I may repay them.  

###### 11 By this I know that You are well pleased with me,  
Because my enemy does not triumph over me.  

###### 12 As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,  
And set me before Your face forever.

###### 13 Blessed _be_ the Lord God of Israel  
From everlasting to everlasting!  
Amen and Amen.