1 Blessed is he who considers a poor man. LORD will deliver him in the day of evil.
2 LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be blessed upon the earth. And thou do not deliver him to the will of his enemies.
3 LORD will support him upon the bed of languishing. Thou will make all his bed in his sickness.
4 I said, O LORD, have mercy upon me. Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee.
5 My enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish?
6 And if he comes to see [me], he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.
7 All who hate me whisper together against me. Against me they devise my hurt.
8 An evil disease, [they say], clings firm to him. And now that he lays he shall rise up no more.
9 Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.