Chapter 41

David.

1st, God is blessed because he looks after the poor, the weak.

2nd, David says his enemies want him to die, and they conspire and whisper about him.

3rd, The prayer turns here, to a request for God to lift him up, so he can repay his enemies. 

4th, David will conclude that God delights in him when David's enemies do not win.

5th, Blessed be the Lord.

7/27

2024  indirect - See the 2024 note on John 13:18.  This is a very Messianic Psalm and worth a very much closer look than I have given it before.  I will look forward to reading it later this year.

2024 - A favorite verse of mine, but in the KJV:

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and [why] art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance. [Psa 42:5 KJV].  This is disconcerting...This is not how I memorized it.  I remember...Why art thou cast down, oh my soul, and why art thou disquieted within me.  Hope in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the help of my countenance and my God.  I did a search, and found my verse, along with one more.  Here they are:

11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God. [Psa 42:11 KJV]

5 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God. [Psa 43:5 KJV].  This last one is the one I had memorized.