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Behold the power of God in the Psalms!

The future proves the past.

Psalm 41:

Assurance of God’s Help and a Plea for Healing

A Psalm of David.

41 Blessed is he who considers the poor!

The Lord delivers him in the day of trouble;

2 the Lord protects him and keeps him alive;

he is called blessed in the land;

thou dost not give him up to the will of his enemies.

3 The Lord sustains him on his sickbed;

in his illness thou healest all his infirmities.

4 As for me, I said, “O Lord, be gracious to me;

heal me, for I have sinned against thee!”

5 My enemies say of me in malice:

“When will he die, and his name perish?”

6 And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,

while his heart gathers mischief;

when he goes out, he tells it abroad.

7 All who hate me whisper together about me;

they imagine the worst for me.

8 They say, “A deadly thing has fastened upon him;

he will not rise again from where he lies.”

9 Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted,

who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.

10 But do thou, O Lord, be gracious to me,

and raise me up, that I may requite them!

11 By this I know that thou art pleased with me,

in that my enemy has not triumphed over me.

12 But thou hast upheld me because of my integrity,

and set me in thy presence for ever.

13 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,

from everlasting to everlasting!

Amen and Amen.

Behold the power of God in the Psalms!

The future proves the past.

Psalm 7:

Plea for Help against Persecutors

A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush a Benjaminite.

7 O Lord my God, in thee do I take refuge;

save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me,

2 lest like a lion they rend me,

dragging me away, with none to rescue.

3 O Lord my God, if I have done this,

if there is wrong in my hands,

4 if I have requited my friend with evil

or plundered my enemy without cause,

5 let the enemy pursue me and overtake me,

and let him trample my life to the ground,

and lay my soul in the dust. Selah

6 Arise, O Lord, in thy anger,

lift thyself up against the fury of my enemies;

awake, O my God; thou hast appointed a judgment.

7 Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about thee;

and over it take thy seat on high.

8 The Lord judges the peoples;

judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness

and according to the integrity that is in me.

9 O let the evil of the wicked come to an end,

but establish thou the righteous,

thou who triest the minds and hearts,

thou righteous God.

10 My shield is with God,

who saves the upright in heart.

11 God is a righteous judge,

and a God who has indignation every day.

12 If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;

he has bent and strung his bow;

13 he has prepared his deadly weapons,

making his arrows fiery shafts.

14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil,

and is pregnant with mischief,

and brings forth lies.

15 He makes a pit, digging it out,

and falls into the hole which he has made.

16 His mischief returns upon his own head,

and on his own pate his violence descends.

17 I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness,

and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.