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大卫的诗。交给圣咏团长。

病中祈祷

  1眷顾贫寒人的有福了⚓！
   在患难的日子，耶和华必搭救他。
   2耶和华必保全他，使他存活，
   他要在地上享福。
  求你不要把他交给仇敌，遂其所愿。
   3他病重在榻，耶和华必扶持他；
   他在病中，你必使他离开病床。

   4我曾说：“耶和华啊，求你怜悯我，
   医治我，因为我得罪了你。”
   5我的仇敌用恶言议论我：
   “他几时才会死，他的名几时才会消灭呢？”
   6当他来看我的时候，说的是假话；
   他心存奸恶，走到外边才说出来。
   7所有恨我的，都一同交头接耳议论我，
   他们设计要害我。

   8他们说：“他有怪病缠身，
   他已躺下，必不能再起来。”
   9连我知己的朋友，
   我所信赖、吃我饭的人也用脚踢我。
   10耶和华啊，求你怜悯我，
   使我起来，好报复他们！

   11我因此就知道你喜爱我，
   我的仇敌不得向我夸胜。
   12你因我纯正就扶持我，
   使我永远站立在你面前。

   13耶和华－以色列的上帝是应当称颂的，
   从亘古直到永远。阿们！阿们！

第二卷（四十二至七十二篇）

可拉后裔的诗。交给圣咏团长。

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The Blessing and Suffering of the Godly

To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.
  1Blessed is he who considers the poor;
   The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
    2The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive,
   And he will be blessed on the earth;
   ⚓You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
    3The Lord will strengthen him on his bed of illness;
   You will sustain him on his sickbed.
   4I said, “Lord, be merciful to me;
   ⚓Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
    5My enemies speak evil of me:
   “When will he die, and his name perish?”
    6And if he comes to see me, he speaks lies;
   His heart gathers iniquity to itself;
   When he goes out, he tells it.
   7All who hate me whisper together against me;
   Against me they devise my hurt.
    8“An evil disease,” they say, “clings to him.
   And now that he lies down, he will rise up no more.”
    9⚓Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted,
   ⚓Who ate my bread,
   Has lifted up his heel against me.
   10But You, O Lord, be merciful to me, and raise me up,
   That I may repay them.
    11By this I know that You are well pleased with me,
   Because my enemy does not triumph over me.
    12As for me, You uphold me in my integrity,
   And ⚓set me before Your face forever.
   13⚓Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
   From everlasting to everlasting!
   Amen and Amen.