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Psalm 41:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 41:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 Once I prayed, “O Lord, have mercy on me;
heal me, for I have sinned[a] against you.
6 In their malice my enemies say of me,
‘When will he die and his name be forgotten?’
7 When someone comes to visit me,
he utters words without sincerity;
his heart[b] harbors slander,
and on departing he gives voice to it.
Footnotes
- Psalm 41:5 Sinned: the psalmist acknowledges his sin and asks for forgiveness and healing—in keeping with the idea that sickness was a divine punishment for sin (see Ps 107:17; Job 32:3). In the cure of the man born blind, Jesus was to indicate that such was not the case (see Jn 9:2f).
- Psalm 41:7 Heart: see note on Ps 4:8.
