Hi there, this is Mary Demuth and this is Pray Every Day, where I have the joy and the privilege of praying you through the Bible verse by verse.

We're going to be doing two Psalms today, Psalm 41 and Psalm 42, and after each one, I will pray for you.

This is what it says in the World English Bible.

Psalm 41 for the chief musician, a Psalm by David. 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 a sick bed 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. My heart, 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. Yet 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 to be Yahweh, the God of Israel,

from everlasting into everlasting.

Amen and amen.

Lord Jesus, I do pray that you would deliver us

from those angry voices,

from people who act as enemies in our lives.

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