41 ⁽⁰⁾ For the leader. A psalm of David:

^2 (1) How blessed are those who care for the poor!
When calamity comes, Adonai will save them.
^3 (2) Adonai will preserve them, keep them alive,
and make them happy in the land.
You will not hand them over
to the whims of their enemies.
^4 (3) Adonai sustains them on their sickbed;
when they lie ill, you make them recover.
^5 (4) I said, “Adonai, have pity on me!
Heal me, for I have sinned against you!”
^6 (5) My enemies say the worst about me:
“When will he die and his name disappear?”
^7 (6) When they come to see me they speak insincerely,
their hearts meanwhile gathering falsehoods;
then they go out and spread bad reports.
^8 (7) All who hate me whisper together against me,
imagining the worst about me.
^9 (8) “A fatal disease has attached itself to him;
now that he lies ill, he will never get up.”
^10 (9) Even my close friend, on whom I relied,
who shared my table, has turned against me.

^11 (10) But you, Adonai, have pity on me,
put me on my feet, so I can pay them back.
^12 (11) I will know you are pleased with me
if my enemy doesn’t defeat me.
^13 (12) You uphold me because of my innocence
you establish me in your presence forever.

^14 (13) Blessed be Adonai the God of Isra’el
from eternity past to eternity future.

Amen. Amen.

^2 (1) Just as a deer longs for running streams,
God, I long for you.
^3 (2) I am thirsty for God, for the living God!
When can I come and appear before God?

^4 (3) My tears are my food, day and night,
while all day people ask me, “Where is your God?”
^5 (4) I recall, as my feelings well up within me,
how I’d go with the crowd to the house of God,
with sounds of joy and praise from the throngs
observing the festival.

^6 (5) My soul, why are you so downcast?
Why are you groaning inside me?
Hope in God, since I will praise him again
for the salvation that comes from his presence.
^7 (6) My God, when I feel so downcast,
I remind myself of you
from the land of Yarden, from the peaks of Hermon,
from the hill Mizar.
^8 (7) Deep is calling to deep
at the thunder of your waterfalls;
all your surging rapids and waves
are sweeping over me.
^9 (8) By day Adonai commands his grace,
and at night his song is with me
as a prayer to the God of my life.
^10 (9) I say to God my Rock,
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why must I go about mourning,
under pressure by the enemy?
^11 (10) My adversaries’ taunts make me feel
as if my bones were crushed,
as they ask me all day long,
‘Where is your God?’ ”

^12 (11) My soul, why are you so downcast?
Why are you groaning inside me?
Hope in God, since I will praise him again
for being my Savior and God.