041:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.>> Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. 041:002 Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies. 041:003 Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. 041:004 I said, "Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you." 041:005 My enemies speak evil against me: "When will he die, and his name perish?" 041:006 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. 041:007 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. 041:008 "An evil disease," they say, "has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more." 041:009 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. 041:010 But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. 041:011 By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn't triumph over me. 041:012 As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. 041:013 Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. 042:001 <<For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah.>> As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God. 042:002 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God? 042:003 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" 042:004 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day. 042:005 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence. 042:006 My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar. 042:007 Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me. 042:008 Yahweh will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life. 042:009 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?" 042:010 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" 042:011 Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me?