Beatus qui intelligit.
The happiness of him that shall believe in Christ; notwithstanding the
humility and poverty in which he shall come: the malice of his enemies,
especially of the traitor Judas.
40:1. Unto the end, a psalm for David himself.
40:2. Blessed is he that understandeth concerning the needy and the
poor: the Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
40:3. 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.
40:4. The Lord help him on his bed of sorrow: thou hast turned all his
couch in his sickness.
40:5. I said: O Lord, be thou merciful to me: heal my soul, for I have
sinned against thee.
40:6. My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and
his name perish?
40:7. And if he came in to see me, he spoke vain things: his heart
gathered together iniquity to itself. He went out and spoke to the same
purpose.
40:8. All my enemies whispered together against me: they devised evils
to me.
40:9. They determined against me an unjust word: shall he that sleepeth
rise again no more?
40:10. For even the man of my peace, in whom I trusted, who ate my
bread, hath greatly supplanted me.
40:11. But thou, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again: and I
will requite them.
40:12. By this I know, that thou hast had a good will for me: because
my enemy shall not rejoice over me.
40:13. But thou hast upheld me by reason of my innocence: and hast
established me in thy sight for ever.
40:14. Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel from eternity to eternity.
So be it. So be it.