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Chapter 41
Psal JPS 41:2  Happy is he that considereth the poor; HaShem will deliver him in the day of evil.
Psal JPS 41:3  HaShem preserve him, and keep him alive, let him be called happy in the land; and deliver not Thou him unto the greed of his enemies.
Psal JPS 41:4  HaShem support him upon the bed of illness; mayest Thou turn all his lying down in his sickness.
Psal JPS 41:5  As for me, I said: 'O HaShem, be gracious unto me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against Thee.'
Psal JPS 41:6  Mine enemies speak evil of me: 'When shall he die, and his name perish?'
Psal JPS 41:7  And if one come to see me, he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he speaketh of it.
Psal JPS 41:8  All that hate me whisper together against me, against me do they devise my hurt:
Psal JPS 41:9  'An evil thing cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more.'
Psal JPS 41:10  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
Psal JPS 41:11  But Thou, O HaShem, be gracious unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
Psal JPS 41:12  By this I know that Thou delightest in me, that mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
Psal JPS 41:13  And as for me, Thou upholdest me because of mine integrity, and settest me before Thy face for ever.
Psal JPS 41:14  Blessed be HaShem, the G-d of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. BOOK II