Psalms 41-43

1Blessed is the one who cares for the poor; the LORD will deliver him in the day of trouble.

2The LORD will protect and preserve him; He will bless him in the land and refuse to give him over to the will of his foes.

3The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.

4I said, “O LORD, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against You.”

5My enemies say with malice: “When will he die and be forgotten?”

6My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.

7All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

8“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

9Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

10But You, O LORD, be gracious to me and raise me up, that I may repay them.

11By this I know that You delight in me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

12In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever.

13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

2My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

3My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

4These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the festive procession to the house of God with shouts of joy and praise.

5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.

6O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon— even from Mount Mizar.

7Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls; all Your breakers and waves have rolled over me.

8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.

1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.

2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

3Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain and to the place where You dwell.

4Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my greatest joy. I will praise You with the harp, O God, my God.

5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.