Psalms — Chapter 41
For the leader. A psalm of David.
Happy is someone who is thoughtful of the wretched;in bad times may GOD keep themathem I.e., the thoughtful person. from harm.
May GOD guard them and preserve them;and may they be thought happy in the land.Do not subject them to the will of their enemies.
GOD will sustain them on their sickbed;You shall wholly transform their bed of suffering.bYou shall wholly transform their bed of suffering Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
I said, “O ETERNAL One, have mercy on me,heal me, for I have sinned against You.”
My enemies speak evilly of me,“When will he die and his name perish?”
Each of them who comes to visit speaks falsely,storing up evil thoughts—speaking them once outside.
All my enemies whisper together against me,imagining the worst for me.
“Something baneful has settled in him;he’ll not rise from his bed again.”
My ally in whom I trusted,even someone who shares my bread,has been utterly false to me.chas been utterly false to me Meaning of Heb. uncertain.
But You, O ETERNAL One, have mercy on me;let me rise again and repay them.
Then shall I know that You are pleased with me:when my enemy cannot shout in triumph over me.
You will support me because of my integrity,and let me abide in Your presence forever.
Blessed is the ETERNAL, God of Israel,from eternity to eternity.Amen and Amen.
✦ Connected Across Traditions
Divine Compassion & Mercy
Quran 1:1
“In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.”
Luke 6:36
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
Snp 1.8
“As a mother would risk her life to protect her child, her only child, even so should one cultivate a limitless heart with regard to all beings.”
Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 1
“One Universal Creator God. The Name Is Truth. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred.”
Impermanence & Letting Go
Dhammapada 20:277
“All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”
Tao Te Ching 76
“A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. The soft and yielding is the disciple of life.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-2
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.”
Bhagavad Gita 2:22
“As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones.”
Good vs Evil / Light vs Darkness
Yasna 30:3
“Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action.”
John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
Dhammapada 1:1-2
“Mind is the forerunner of all actions. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows like a shadow.”
Bhagavad Gita 16:21
“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed. Therefore, one must learn to give these up.”