# Psalm 41 ## Psalm 41:1 - [KJV] Blessed *is* he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble. - [ASV] Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil. - [YLT] O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him. ### Notes on Psalm 41:1 - ## Psalm 41:2 - [KJV] The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; *and* he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. - [ASV] Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he shall be blessed upon the earth; And deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies. - [YLT] Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies. ### Notes on Psalm 41:2 - ## Psalm 41:3 - [KJV] The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. - [ASV] Jehovah will support him upon the couch of languishing: Thou makest all his bed in his sickness. - [YLT] Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness. ### Notes on Psalm 41:3 - ## Psalm 41:4 - [KJV] I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee. - [ASV] I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; For I have sinned against thee. - [YLT] I -- I said, 'O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,' ### Notes on Psalm 41:4 - ## Psalm 41:5 - [KJV] Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish? - [ASV] Mine enemies speak evil against me, *saying*, When will he die, and his name perish? - [YLT] Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth -- his name hath perished! ### Notes on Psalm 41:5 - ## Psalm 41:6 - [KJV] And if he come to see *me*, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; *when* he goeth abroad, he telleth *it*. - [ASV] And if he come to see *me*, he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it. - [YLT] And if he came to see -- vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out -- at the street he speaketh. ### Notes on Psalm 41:6 - ## Psalm 41:7 - [KJV] All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt. - [ASV] All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt. - [YLT] All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me: ### Notes on Psalm 41:7 - ## Psalm 41:8 - [KJV] An evil disease, *say they*, cleaveth fast unto him: and *now* that he lieth he shall rise up no more. - [ASV] An evil disease, *say they*, cleaveth fast unto him; And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more. - [YLT] A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again. ### Notes on Psalm 41:8 - ## Psalm 41:9 - [KJV] Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up *his* heel against me. - [ASV] Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me. - [YLT] Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me, ### Notes on Psalm 41:9 - ## Psalm 41:10 - [KJV] But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them. - [ASV] But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them. - [YLT] And Thou, Jehovah, favour me, And cause me to rise, And I give recompence to them. ### Notes on Psalm 41:10 - ## Psalm 41:11 - [KJV] By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. - [ASV] By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me. - [YLT] By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me. ### Notes on Psalm 41:11 - ## Psalm 41:12 - [KJV] And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever. - [ASV] And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever. - [YLT] As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age. ### Notes on Psalm 41:12 - ## Psalm 41:13 - [KJV] Blessed *be* the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. - [ASV] Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. - [YLT] Blessed *is* Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age -- and unto the age. Amen and Amen. ### Notes on Psalm 41:13 -