In Context

4 I said, |Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.|

5 My enemies speak evil against me: |When will he die, and his name perish?|

6 If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

7 All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

8 |An evil disease,| they say, |has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.|

9 Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

Psalm 41:7 in Other Translations