For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
Blessed is he who considers the poor. Pro 19:17Pro 14:212Co 9:8-14Act 20:35Mat 25:34-39Psa 37:39-40Jas 2:13Heb 6:10
The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive. Jer 45:4-5Psa 27:121Ti 4:8Psa 33:19Psa 37:32-33Psa 128:1-6Psa 140:8-9Psa 37:22
He shall be blessed on the earth,
and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.
The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, 2Ki 20:5-6Php 2:26-27Psa 73:262Co 4:16-172Ki 1:162Ki 1:6
and restore him from his bed of illness.
I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Psa 103:3Jas 5:15-16Hos 6:12Ch 30:18-20Psa 147:3Psa 32:5Psa 6:2-4Psa 51:1-4
Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”
My enemies speak evil against me: Pro 10:7Psa 102:8Psa 38:12Job 20:7Job 18:17Psa 22:6-8
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. Psa 12:2Luk 11:53-54Pro 26:24-26Luk 20:20-232Co 11:26Dan 11:27Jer 20:10Mic 7:5-7
His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
All who hate me whisper together against me. Pro 16:28Mat 22:15Mat 26:3-4Psa 56:5-62Co 12:20Pro 26:20Psa 31:13Rom 1:29
They imagine the worst for me.
“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Luk 13:16Mat 27:41-46Psa 71:11Job 2:7-8Mat 27:63-64Psa 3:2Psa 38:3-7
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Jhn 13:18Psa 55:12-14Mat 26:23Jhn 13:26-27Psa 55:20-22Jer 20:10Job 19:192Sa 15:12
who ate bread with me,
has lifted up his heel against me.
But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, Luk 19:27Psa 109:6-21Psa 18:37-42Psa 21:8-10Psa 3:3Psa 57:1Psa 69:22-28
that I may repay them.
By this I know that you delight in me, Col 2:15Psa 124:6Jer 20:13Psa 147:11Psa 25:2Psa 31:8Psa 86:17Psa 13:4
because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, Job 36:7Psa 73:23-24Jhn 17:24Psa 34:15Psa 37:17Psa 25:21Psa 63:8Psa 16:11
and set me in your presence forever.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, Psa 72:18-19Eph 1:3Rev 4:8Rev 5:9-14Psa 89:52Psa 106:48Psa 150:6Rev 7:12
from everlasting and to everlasting!
Amen and amen.