39:12. Withhold not thou, O Lord, thy tender mercies from me: thy mercy and thy truth have always upheld me. 39:13. For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me. My iniquities. . .That is, the sins of all mankind, which I have taken upon me. 39:14. Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me. look down, O Lord, to help me. 39:15. Let them be confounded and ashamed together, that seek after my soul to take it away. Let them be turned backward and be ashamed that desire evils to me. 39:16. Let them immediately bear their confusion, that say to me: 'T is well, t' is well. 'T is well. . .The Hebrew here is an interjection of insult and derision, like the Vah. Matt. 27.49. 39:17. Let all that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say always: The Lord be magnified. 39:18. But I am a beggar and poor: the Lord is careful for me. Thou art my helper and my protector: O my God, be not slack. Psalms Chapter 40 Beatus qui intelligit. The happiness of him that shall believe in Christ; notwithstanding the humility and poverty in which he shall come: the malice of his enemies, especially of the traitor Judas. 40:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. 40:2. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. 40:3. 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. 40:4. The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness. 40:5. I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. 40:6. My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish? 40:7. 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. 40:8. All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils to me. 40:9. They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth rise again no more? 40:10. For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, hath greatly supplanted me. 40:11. But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise my up again: and I will requite them. 40:12. By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because my enemy shall not rejoice over me. 40:13. But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast established me in thy sight for ever. 40:14. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity. So be it. So be it. Psalms Chapter 41 Quemadmodum desiderat. The fervent desire of the just after God: hope in afflictions. 41:1. Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. 41:2. As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God.