Psalms 40 CPDV

¹ Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.

² Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor.The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

³ May the Lord preserve him and give him life,and make him blessed upon the earth.And may he not hand him over to the will of his adversaries.

⁴ May the Lord bring him help on his bed of sorrow.In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering.

⁵ I said, 'O Lord, be merciful to me.Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.'

⁶ My enemies have spoken evils against me.When will he die and his name perish?

⁷ And when he came in to see me, he was speaking emptiness.His heart gathered iniquity to itself.He went outside, and he was speaking in the same way.

⁸ All my enemies were whispering against me.They were thinking up evils against me.

⁹ They established an unjust word against me.Will he that sleeps no longer rise again?

¹⁰ For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped,who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.

¹¹ But you, O Lord, have mercy on me,and raise me up again. And I will requite them.

¹² By this, I knew that you preferred me:because my adversary will not rejoice over me.

¹³ But you have sustained me, because of my innocence,and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.

¹⁴ Blessed is the Lord God of Israel,for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.