1Yahweh is pleased with those people who help to provide for the poor;
2Yahweh protects them and allows them to live for a long time.
3When they are sick, Yahweh strengthens them,
4When I was sick, I said, “Yahweh, be merciful to me and heal me;
5My enemies say cruel things about me;
6When my enemies come to me, they falsely say that they are concerned about me.
7All those who hate me whisper to others about me,
8They say, “He will soon die because of his being sick;
9Even my best friend, whom I trusted very much,
10But Yahweh, be merciful to me, and enable me to become healthy again.
11If you enable me to do that, with the result that my enemies do not defeat me,
12I will know that it is because I have done what is right that you have helped me,
13Praise Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship;