Psalms:41-42
rsv@Psalms:41:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:41:2 @ Blessed is he who considers the poor! The LORD delivers him in the day of trouble;
rsv@Psalms:41:3 @ the LORD protects him and keeps him alive; he is called blessed in the land; thou dost not give him up to the will of his enemies.
rsv@Psalms:41:4 @ The LORD sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness thou healest all his infirmities.
rsv@Psalms:41:5 @ As for me, I said, "O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against thee!"
rsv@Psalms:41:6 @ My enemies say of me in malice: "When will he die, and his name perish?"
rsv@Psalms:41:7 @ And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words, while his heart gathers mischief; when he goes out, he tells it abroad.
rsv@Psalms:41:8 @ All who hate me whisper together about me; they imagine the worst for me.
rsv@Psalms:41:9 @ They say, "A deadly thing has fastened upon him; he will not rise again from where he lies."
rsv@Psalms:41:10 @ Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
rsv@Psalms:41:11 @ But do thou, O LORD, be gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them!
rsv@Psalms:41:12 @ By this I know that thou art pleased with me, in that my enemy has not triumphed over me.
rsv@Psalms:41:13 @ But thou hast upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in thy presence for ever. [ (Psalms strkjv@41:14) Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen. ]
rsv@Psalms:42:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.
rsv@Psalms:42:2 @ As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.
rsv@Psalms:42:3 @ My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
rsv@Psalms:42:4 @ My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
rsv@Psalms:42:5 @ These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
rsv@Psalms:42:6 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help
rsv@Psalms:42:7 @ and my God. My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
rsv@Psalms:42:8 @ Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
rsv@Psalms:42:9 @ By day the LORD commands his steadfast love; and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
rsv@Psalms:42:10 @ I say to God, my rock: "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
rsv@Psalms:42:11 @ As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?" [ (Psalms strkjv@42:12) Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. ]
rsv@Psalms:43:1 @ Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!
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