Holy Scripture
Psalms 40:2
A church father on this verse
“Christ has heard the prayer of his own servants and has brought us out from the pit of misery and from the mire of dregs. We were drowning there; our whole flesh was clinging to the mire, trapped in the whirlpool of our sins. Our soul was powerless to save itself; fallen and ruined as it was by the multiplicity and dr…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2Blessed is the man who thinks on the poor and needy: The Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.
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In context
1For the end, a Psalm of David.
— Psalms 40:2 —
3May the Lord preserve him and keep him alive, and bless him on the earth, And not deliver him into the hands of his enemy.
4May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; Thou hast made all his bed in his sickness.