- The man is blest that careful is,
- the needy to consider,
- For in the season perilous,
- the Lord will him deliver.
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- 2 The Lord will make him safe and sound,
- and happy in the land:
- And he will not deliver him
- into his enemies hand.
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- 3 And in his bed when he lies sick,
- the Lord will him restore:
- And thou, O Lord wilt turn to health
- his sickness and his sore.
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- 4 Then in my sickness thus say I,
- have mercy Lord on me,
- And heal my soul, which is full woe
- that I offended thee.
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- 5 Mine enemies wished me ill in heart,
- and thus of me did say
- When shall he die, that all his name
- may vanish quite away?
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- 6 And when they come to visit me,
- they ask if I do well:
- But in their hearts mischief they hatch,
- and to their mates it tell.
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- 7 They bite their lips, and whisper so,
- as though they would me charm:
- And cast their fetches how to trap
- me with some mortal harm.
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- 8 Some grievous sin hath brought him to
- this sickness say they plain:
- He is so low that without doubt
- rise can he not again.
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- 9 The man also that I did trust
- with me did use deceit:
- Who at my table eat my bread,
- the same for me laid wait.
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- 10 Have mercy Lord on me therefore,
- and let me be preserved:
- That I may render unto them,
- the things they have deserved.
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- 11 By this I know assuredly,
- I am beloved of thee:
- When that mine enemies have no cause
- to triumph over me.
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- 12 But in my right thou hast me kept,
- and maintained alway:
- And in thy presence place assigned,
- where I shall dwell for aye.
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- 13 The Lord the God of Israel
- be praised forevermore:
- Even so be it, Lord will I say,
- even so be it therefore.
