Psalm 41:2 {40:3}
Good News Translation
The LORD will protect them and preserve their lives; he will make them happy in the land; he will not abandon them to the power of their enemies.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD protects them and keeps them alive; they are called happy in the land. You do not give them up to the will of their enemies.

Contemporary English Version
You protect them and keep them alive. You make them happy here in this land, and you don't hand them over to their enemies.

New American Bible
The LORD keeps and preserves him, makes him blessed in the land, and does not betray him to his enemies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.

preserve

Psalm 33:19 To deliver their souls from death; and feed them in famine.

Psalm 91:3-7 For he hath delivered me from the snare of the hunters: and from the sharp word. . . .

Jeremiah 45:4,5 Thus saith the Lord: Thus shalt thou say to him: Behold, them whom I have built, I do destroy: and them whom I have planted, I do pluck up, and all this land. . . .

blessed

Psalm 128:1-6 A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways. . . .

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

thou wilt not.

Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 37:32,33 The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death, . . .

Psalm 140:8,9 Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph. . . .

Context
Blessed is He who Cares for the Poor
1Unto the end, a psalm for David himself. [2] Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day. 2The Lord preserve him and give him life, and make him blessed upon the earth: and deliver him not up to the will of his enemies.3The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:24
And the Lord commanded that we should do all these ordinances, and should fear the Lord our God, that it might be well with us all the days of our life, as it is at this day.

Psalm 27:12
Deliver me not over to the will of them that trouble me; for unjust witnesses have risen up against me; and iniquity hath lied to itself.

Psalm 37:22
For such as bless him shall inherit the land: but such as curse him shall perish.

Psalm 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and will not forsake his saints: they shall be preserved for ever. The unjust shall be punished, and the seed of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 41:3
The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his couch in his sickness.

Psalm 121:3
May he not suffer thy foot to be moved: neither let him slumber that keepeth thee.

Psalm 121:7
The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

Jeremiah 39:17
And I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord: and thou shalt not be given into the hands of the men whom thou fearest:

Psalm 41:1
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