Psalms 41:13–13, King James Version
Italic words were supplied in the English translation for clarity.
Psalms 41:13–13
Care for the weak, betrayal, and Book I's doxology: Book I doxology
Book I closes by blessing the God of Israel
The last line of Psalm 41 is not another verse of the sickbed. It is the seam that ends the first book of the Psalter: 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.'
After Torah's two ways, a Zion king, nights of sleep and unsleep, storms, pits, valleys, alphabets, and a lifted heel, the collection does not resolve every cry. It answers with doxology. The LORD, God of Israel, is blessed without remainder of time.
A double Amen as a door, not a trophy
Amen and Amen is the people's seal on that blessing. Book II will open in another voice. This unit exists to teach the shape of the book: lament and kingship and wisdom are gathered into praise of Israel's God.
The doxology is not a claim that Book I's sufferers were all healed, nor a national victory chant. It is worship at the edge of an unfinished Psalter.
How this should shape us
When a long stretch of prayer still has open wounds, end by blessing God anyway, without pretending the wounds were scenery. Say Amen to Israel's God, not to your own resolved plot.
Teach it back
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Best judgment: Care for weak people is not a bargain guaranteeing health, and betrayal language must not become suspicion toward every friend or caregiver.
How certain? probableResearch trail and exact locationsThe source record behind this section
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Psalms 41:13–13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 41:13–13
Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 41:13–13.
Official NET Bible Psalm 41 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 41:13–13
Supports: Five-book, genre, poetic, historical, theological, liturgical, communal, and reception synthesis with visible limits.
Enter the Bible Psalms course, Introductory Issues: individual and communal lament, from lament to praise, and Bible in the World; applied to Psalms 41:13–13
Supports: Ancient Greek wording, numbering, division, and superscription evidence where it materially clarifies translation or reception.
NETS Psalms, Pietersma introduction pp. 542–543 and exact Greek translation headed Ps 41 for Psalms 41:13–13
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 41:13–13, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 41:13–13
Open the fixed Hebrew Psalms file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Psalms 1-150
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, current official online edition
Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 41:13–13.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 41 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 41:13–13
Open the official NET Psalms notes ↗modern scholarly book course
Psalms course: summary, outline, background, introductory issues, theological themes, and Bible in the world
Fred Gaiser; revised by Nicholas Schaser
Enter the Bible, Luther Seminary, revised May 2024
Supports: Five-book, genre, poetic, historical, theological, liturgical, communal, and reception synthesis with visible limits.
Exact location: Enter the Bible Psalms course, Introductory Issues: individual and communal lament, from lament to praise, and Bible in the World; applied to Psalms 41:13–13
Open the Enter the Bible Psalms course ↗ancient greek text translation and introduction
A New English Translation of the Septuagint: Psalms
Albert Pietersma
International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies; Oxford University Press, 2009
Supports: Ancient Greek wording, numbering, division, and superscription evidence where it materially clarifies translation or reception.
Exact location: NETS Psalms, Pietersma introduction pp. 542–543 and exact Greek translation headed Ps 41 for Psalms 41:13–13
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