1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he who considers the poor: Yehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.
2Yehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he shall be blessed upon the earth; And do not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
3Yehovah will support him upon the couch of languishing: You make all his bed in his sickness.
4I said, O Yehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; for I have sinned against you.
5My enemies speak evil against me, saying, When will he die, and his name perish?
6And if he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood; His heart gathers iniquity to itself: When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7All who hate me whisper together against me; Against me they devise my hurt.
8An evil disease, they say, cleaves fast to him; And now that he lies he shall rise up no more.
9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who ate of my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.
10But you, O Yehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.
11By this I know that you delight in me, Because my enemy does not triumph over me.
12And as for me, you uphold me in my integrity, And set me before your face forever.
13Blessed be Yehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.