For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.
1Blessed is he who considers the poor.
The Lord will deliver him in the day of evil.
2The Lord 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.
3The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed,
and restore him from his bed of illness.
4I said, “Lord, have mercy on me!
Heal me, for I have sinned against You.”
5My enemies speak evil against me:
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
6If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood.
His heart gathers iniquity to itself.
When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7All who hate me whisper together against me.
They imagine the worst for me.
8“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him.
Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”
9Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
who ate bread with me,
has lifted up his heel against me.
10But You, Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up,
that I may repay them.
11By this I know that You delight in me,
because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.
12As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
and set me in Your presence forever.
13Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting and to everlasting!
Amen and amen.
1In finem. Psalmus ipsi David.
2Beatus qui intelligit super egenum et pauperem: in die mala liberabit eum Dominus. 3Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum ejus. 4Dominus opem ferat illi super lectum doloris ejus; universum stratum ejus versasti in infirmitate ejus. 5Ego dixi: Domine, miserere mei; sana animam meam, quia peccavi tibi. 6Inimici mei dixerunt mala mihi: Quando morietur, et peribit nomen ejus? 7Et si ingrediebatur ut videret, vana loquebatur; cor ejus congregavit iniquitatem sibi. Egrediebatur foras et loquebatur. 8In idipsum adversum me susurrabant omnes inimici mei; adversum me cogitabant mala mihi. 9Verbum iniquum constituerunt adversum me: Numquid qui dormit non adjiciet ut resurgat? 10Etenim homo pacis meæ in quo speravi, qui edebat panes meos, magnificavit super me supplantationem. 11Tu autem, Domine, miserere mei, et resuscita me; et retribuam eis. 12In hoc cognovi quoniam voluisti me, quoniam non gaudebit inimicus meus super me. 13Me autem propter innocentiam suscepisti; et confirmasti me in conspectu tuo in æternum. 14Benedictus Dominus Deus Israël a sæculo et usque in sæculum. Fiat, fiat.