¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

¹Untuk pemimpin kor. Mazmur Daud. (41-2) Berbahagialah orang yang memperhatikan orang yang lemah; TUHAN akan menolong dia di waktu kesesakan.

²Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

²(41-3) TUHAN akan melindungi dan memelihara dia, Ia akan membahagiakannya di bumi, dan tidak menyerahkan dia ke tangan musuhnya.

³Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

³(41-4) TUHAN akan menolong dia pada waktu sakit, dan memulihkan kesehatannya.

⁴I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

⁴(41-5) Kataku, "Aku telah berdosa terhadap-Mu, ya TUHAN, kasihanilah aku dan sembuhkanlah aku."

⁵My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

⁵(41-6) Musuhku mengatakan yang jahat tentang aku, mereka ingin agar aku mati dan dilupakan.

⁶If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

⁶(41-7) Orang-orang yang menjenguk aku tidak tulus ikhlas. Mereka mengumpulkan kabar buruk tentang aku, lalu menyiarkannya ke mana-mana.

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

⁷(41-8) Semua yang membenci aku berbisik-bisik; mereka mengatakan yang paling jelek tentang aku.

⁸“An evil disease,” they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

⁸(41-9) Kata mereka, "Penyakitnya parah sekali, ia tak mungkin bangun lagi."

⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

⁹(41-10) Bahkan kawan karib yang paling kupercayai, orang yang makan bersamaku, telah menghina aku.

¹⁰But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

¹⁰(41-11) Kasihanilah aku ya TUHAN, sembuhkanlah aku, agar aku dapat membalas kejahatan lawan-lawanku.

¹¹By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

¹¹(41-12) Kalau aku tidak dikalahkan musuhku, tahulah aku bahwa Engkau berkenan kepadaku.

¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

¹²(41-13) Engkau menolong aku karena ketulusanku, dan membuat aku hidup bersama-Mu untuk selamanya.

¹³Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II

¹³(41-14) Pujilah TUHAN, Allah Israel! Pujilah Dia sekarang dan selama-lamanya! Jadilah demikian. Amin!