(verse 5); also His thoughts on our behalf. They extend beyond anything we are at all aware of. Again he refers to God’s thinking for him (verse 17).

Psalm 41

BLESSED is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

Considering the poor implies much more than giving money. It is taking trouble to think what can be done for them— and applies a fortiori to spiritual poverty.

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 bed in his sickness.

4 I said, Lord, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

All sin is against God: yet He Himself is our Healer (Ps. XL: 13).

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.

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