Psalm 41

¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. The LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.†⇄ (15 connections)

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.†⇄ (9 connections)

³The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.†⇄ (19 connections)

⁴I said, “LORD, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”†⇄ (29 connections)

⁵My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”† (8 connections)

⁶If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.† (3 connections)

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.†⇄ (17 connections)

⁸“An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”†⇄ (7 connections)

⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.†⇄ (19 connections)

¹⁰But you, LORD, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.†⇄ (14 connections)

¹¹By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.† (2 connections)

¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.† (1 connection)

¹³Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.⇄ (1 connection)