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Psalms 41

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Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil. Yahweh 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. Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness. I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.” My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?” If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it. All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me. “An evil disease”, they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.” Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them. By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me. As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen.

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Psalms 41:13

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Ambrose of Milan

"So be it, so be it" is also an indication that you have reached the end of a book. The psalter appears to be divided into five books, and the first book ends with this psalm, namely, the forty-first. The forty-first psalm concludes very fittingly with the passion, just as the forty-day period of Lent concludes with the Lord's passion. This allows the second book to begin with the mysteries of regeneration.

Commentary On Twelve Psalms 41:37 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

"Blessed be the Lord." Here he sets forth praise, and concerning this he does two things. First he sets forth certain things on the part of the one praised; second, on the part of the one praising. "Blessed." To bless is nothing other than to speak well. We bless God in one way, and God blesses us in another. We bless God by acknowledging his goodness. Tob. 12: "Bless the God of heaven." Sir. 43: "Blessing the Lord, exalt him as much as you can." But God blesses us by causing goodness in us, because his speaking is his doing. Ps. …

Exposition on the Psalms of David ↗