---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 41
verse_count: 13
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 41, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 41

*God's care of the poor David fleeth to God for succour. To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.*

**1** Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
**2** The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth; and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
**3** The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; thou wilt make all his pains to cease, when he is laid in his bed of sickness.
**4** I said, Lord, be merciful unto me; heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
**5** Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?
**6** And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity; his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
**7** All that hate me whisper together against me; against me do they devise my hurt.
**8** An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him; and now that lieth he shall rise up no more.
**9** Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
**10** But thou, O Lord, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
**11** By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
**12** And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.
**13** Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen.