Psalms 41

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [For the choirmaster Psalm Of David] Blessed is anyone who cares for the poor and the weak; in timeof trouble Yahweh rescues him.	1 Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
2 Yahweh protects him, gives him life and happiness on earth. Do not abandon him to his enemies'pleasure!	2 Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor : the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
3 Yahweh sustains him on his bed of sickness; you transform altogether the bed where he lies sick.	3 The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth : and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.
4 For my part I said, 'Yahweh, take pity on me! Cure me for I have sinned against you.'	4 The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow : thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.
5 My enemies speak to me only of disaster, 'When wil he die and his name disappear?'	5 I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me : heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
6 When people come to see me their talk is hol ow, when they get out they spread the news with spite intheir hearts.	6 My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?
7 Al who hate me whisper together about me and reckon I deserve the misery I suffer.	7 And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things : his heart gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same purpose.
8 'A fatal sickness has a grip on him; now that he is down, he will never get up again.'	8 All my enemies whispered together against me : they devised evils to me.
9 Even my trusted friend on whom I relied, who shared my table, takes advantage of me.	9 They determined against me an unjust word : shall he that sleepeth rise again no more?
10 But you, Yahweh, take pity on me! Put me on my feet and I wil give them their due.	10 For even the man of peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
11 This wil convince me that you delight in me, if my enemy no longer exults over me.	11 But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again : and I will requite them.
12 Then you wil keep me unscathed, and set me in your presence for ever.	12 By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me : because my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
13 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from eternity to eternity. Amen, Amen.	13 But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence : and hast established me in thy sight for ever.
	14 Blessed by the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it.