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Chapter 40
Psal CPDV 40:2  Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
Psal CPDV 40:3  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.
Psal CPDV 40:4  May the Lord bring him help on his bed of sorrow. In his infirmity, you have changed his entire covering.
Psal CPDV 40:5  I said, “O Lord, be merciful to me. Heal my soul, because I have sinned against you.”
Psal CPDV 40:6  My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?
Psal CPDV 40:7  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.
Psal CPDV 40:8  All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.
Psal CPDV 40:9  They established an unjust word against me. Will he that sleeps no longer rise again?
Psal CPDV 40:10  For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.
Psal CPDV 40:11  But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them.
Psal CPDV 40:12  By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me.
Psal CPDV 40:13  But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.
Psal CPDV 40:14  Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.