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- BLESSED (HAPPY, fortunate, to be envied) is he who considers the weak and the poor; the Lord will deliver him in the time of evil and trouble.
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- The Lord will protect him and keep him alive; he shall be called blessed in the land; and You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
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- The Lord will sustain, refresh, and strengthen him on his bed of languishing; all his bed You [O Lord] will turn, change, and transform in his illness.
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- I said, Lord, be merciful and gracious to me; heal my inner self, for I have sinned against You.
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- My enemies speak evil of me, [saying], When will he die and his name perish?
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- And when one comes to see me, he speaks falsehood and empty words, while his heart gathers mischievous gossip [against me]; when he goes away, he tells it abroad.
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- All who hate me whisper together about me; against me do they devise my hurt [imagining the worst for me].
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- An evil disease, say they, is poured out upon him and cleaves fast to him; and now that he is bedfast, he will not rise up again.
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- Even my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted (relied on and was confident), who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. [John 13:18.]
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- But You, O Lord, be merciful and gracious to me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
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- By this I know that You favor and delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph over me.
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- And as for me, You have upheld me in my integrity and set me in Your presence forever.
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- Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting [from this age to the next, and forever]! Amen and Amen (so be it).
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