Psalm 41-44

New American Standard Bible 1995

⁴ As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;
^(F)Heal my soul, for ^(G)I have sinned against You.”
⁵ My enemies ^(H)speak evil against me,
“When will he die, and his name perish?”
⁶ And ^[e]when he comes to see me, he ^(I)speaks ^[f]falsehood;
His heart gathers wickedness to itself;
When he goes outside, he tells it.
⁷ All who hate me whisper together against me;
Against me they ^(J)devise my hurt, saying,
⁸ “A wicked thing is poured out ^[g]upon him,
That when he lies down, he will ^(K)not rise up again.”
⁹ Even my ^(L)close friend in whom I trusted,
Who ate my bread,
Has lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰ But You, O Lord, be gracious to me and ^(M)raise me up,
That I may repay them.
¹¹ By this I know that ^(N)You are pleased with me,
Because ^(O)my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.
¹² As for me, ^(P)You uphold me in my integrity,
And You set me ^(Q)in Your presence forever.

^13 (R)Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.

^5 (AB)Why are you ^[m](AC)in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become ^(AD)disturbed within me?
^[n](AE)Hope in God, for I shall ^[o]again praise ^[p]Him
For the ^[q](AF)help of His presence.
⁶ O my God, my soul is ^[r]in despair within me;
Therefore I ^(AG)remember You from ^(AH)the land of the Jordan
And the ^[s]peaks of ^(AI)Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
⁷ Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your ^(AJ)breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
⁸ The Lord will ^(AK)command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me ^(AL)in the night,
A prayer to ^(AM)the God of my life.

⁹ I will say to God ^(AN)my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go ^(AO)mourning ^[t]because of the ^(AP)oppression of the enemy?”
¹⁰ As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they ^(AQ)say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
^11 (AR)Why are you ^[u]in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
^[v]Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The ^[w]help of my countenance and my God.

³ O send out Your ^(AY)light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your ^(AZ)holy hill
And to Your ^(BA)dwelling places.
⁴ Then I will go to ^(BB)the altar of God,
To God ^[z]my exceeding ^(BC)joy;
And upon the ^(BD)lyre I shall praise You, O God, my God.

^5 (BE)Why are you ^[aa]in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
^[ab]Hope in God, for I shall ^[ac]again praise Him,
The ^[ad]help of my countenance and my God.

⁴ You are ^(BQ)my King, O God;
^(BR)Command ^[af]victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through You we will ^(BS)push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will ^(BT)trample down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For I will ^(BU)not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.
⁷ But You ^(BV)have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have ^(BW)put to shame those who hate us.
⁸ In God we have ^(BX)boasted all day long,
And we will ^(BY)give thanks to Your name forever. ^[ag]Selah.

⁹ Yet You ^(BZ)have rejected us and brought us to ^(CA)dishonor,
And ^(CB)do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You cause us to ^(CC)turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us ^(CD)have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You give us as ^(CE)sheep ^[ah]to be eaten
And have ^(CF)scattered us among the nations.
¹² You ^(CG)sell Your people ^[ai]cheaply,
And have not ^[aj]profited by their sale.
¹³ You make us a ^(CH)reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a ^(CI)derision to those around us.
¹⁴ You make us ^(CJ)a byword among the nations,
A ^[ak](CK)laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my dishonor is before me
And ^[al]my ^(CL)humiliation has overwhelmed me,
¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who ^(CM)reproaches and reviles,
Because of the presence of the ^(CN)enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, but we have ^(CO)not forgotten You,
And we have not ^(CP)dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not ^(CQ)turned back,
And our steps ^(CR)have not deviated from Your way,
¹⁹ Yet You have ^(CS)crushed us in a place of ^(CT)jackals
And covered us with ^(CU)the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had ^(CV)forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our ^[am]hands to ^(CW)a strange god,
²¹ Would not God ^(CX)find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²² But ^(CY)for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as ^(CZ)sheep to be slaughtered.
^23 (DA)Arouse Yourself, why ^(DB)do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, ^(DC)do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do You ^(DD)hide Your face
And ^(DE)forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For our ^(DF)soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.
^26 (DG)Rise up, be our help,
And ^(DH)redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.