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14 Let them be ashamed and abashed together, that
seek my soul to sweep it away;

let them retreat backward and be brought to
confusion, that delight in my hurt 1.

15 Let them be appalled by reason of their shame 2,
that say unto me, Aha, aha.

16 Let all those that seek thee be joyful and glad in thee;

let such as love thy salvation say continually,

'Jehovah be magnified.'

17 But I am poor and needy;

the Lord thinketh of me :

thou art my help and my deliverer;
O my God, make no tarrying.

PSALM XLI.

Pašnê maškîl

1 Happy is he that considereth the poor3: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil. 2 Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be called happy in the land;

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and give not thou him over unto the greed of his enemies 5.

3 Jehovah will support him upon the couch of illness:

all his lying down thou turnest in his sickness".

4 As for me, I said, 'Jehovah, be gracious unto me; 'heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.'

+ So Heb. marg.

5 Cf. Ps. xxvii. 12.

Heb. text has no 'and.'

i. e. thou turnest his sickness into health; 'turn,' as

XXX. II.

5 Mine enemies speak evil of me : When shall he die, and his name perish?

6 And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity : and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself, and when he cometh forth he telleth it.

7 All mine enemies whisper together against me: even against me do they imagine this evil.

8 Let the sentence of guiltiness proceed against him : and now that he lieth, let him rise up no more.

9 Yea, even mine own familiar friend, whom I trusted who did also eat of my bread, hath laid great wait for me.

10 But be thou merciful unto me, O Lord: raise thou me up again, and I shall reward them.

II By this I know thou favourest me that mine enemy doth not triumph against me.

12 And when I am in my health, thou upholdest me and shalt set me before thy face for ever.

13 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: world without end. Amen.

PSALM XLII. Quemadmodum.

I Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

Lit. unreality; i. e. unreal, hypocritical sympathy.

2 i.e. malicious hopes that the Psalmist's illness would terminate fatally.

Fig. for, has fast hold of him. Or, is infused into him.

5 Mine enemies speak evil of me, (saying,)

'When will he die, and his name perish?' 6 And if one (of them) come to see (me), he speaketh insincerity 1 :

his heart gathereth naughtiness 2 to itself;

he goeth abroad, (and) speaketh of it.

7 All they that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they imagine evil for me:

8 'Some deadly thing,' (say they,) 'is molten firm upon him 3 ;

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'and now that he lieth, he will rise up no more.' 9 Yea, the man that was at peace with me 4, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread,

hath made great the heel against me 5.

10 But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto me, and raise me up,

that I may repay them.

II By this I know that thou delightest in me,

that mine enemy doth not shout (in triumph)

over me.

12 But as for me, because of my perfectness thou holdest me fast,

and settest me before thy face for ever.

13 Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

BOOK II

PSALM XLII.

I As a hind which longeth after the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God.

Cf. Jer. xx. 10 (Heb.), xxxviii. 22, Ob. 7; also Ps. lv. 20. 5 i.e. endeavoured strenuously to trip me up.

"V. 13 does not belong to Ps. xli, but is the doxology forming the subscription to Book I of the Psalms.

2 My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God when shall I come to appear before the presence of God?

3 My tears have been my meat day and night : while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God?

4 Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself: for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God;

5 In the voice of praise and thanksgiving : among such as keep holy-day.

6 Why art thou so full of heaviness, O my soul : and why art thou so disquieted within me?

7 Put thy trust in God: for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance.

8 My God, my soul is vexed within me therefore will I remember thee concerning the land of Jordan, and the little hill of Hermon.

9 One deep calleth another, because of the noise of the water-pipes all thy waves and storms are gone

over me.

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10 The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the day-time and in the night-season did I sing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life.

II I will say unto the God of my strength, Why hast thou forgotten me why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?

12 My bones are smitten asunder as with a sword : while mine enemies (that trouble me) cast me in the teeth;

1 Or, with other points, see the face of God (i. e. come before God as a sovereign; cf. Gen. xxxii. 20, xliii. 3, 2 Sam. xiv. 24). 2i.e. here, my feelings; cf. Glossary I ('soul' and 'upon'). 3 Read rather, with other points, and lead them solemnly.

2 My soul is athirst for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear in the presence of God1?'

3 My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, 'Where is thy God?'

4 These things will I remember, and pour out my soul' upon me,

(namely,) how I used to pass on with the crowd (?), and go solemnly with (?) them3 unto the house of God,

with the sound of a ringing cry and of thanksgiving, a multitude on pilgrimage. 5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and (why) moanest thou upon me?

hope thou in God; for I shall yet thank him, (which is) the salvation of my countenance *. 6 O my God, my soul upon me is cast down : therefore do I remember thee from the land of Jordan,

and the Hermons, from the mountain of Mizar. 7 Deep calleth unto deep at the sound of thy waterspouts":

all thy billows and thy waves are gone over me. 8 By day will Jehovah command his kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, (even) a prayer unto the God of my life.

9 I will say unto God my crag, 'Why hast thou forgotten me?

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'Why go I in black amidst the oppression of the enemy?'

10 As with a battering in my bones mine adversaries reproach me;

So Sept., Pesh., and nearly all moderns; cf. v. xliii. 5 (and my God should also, probably, be added). Heb. text has, (even) the salvation of his countenance. 5 Or, cataracts. 6 XXXV. 14.

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