Holy Scripture
Psalms 40:4
A church father on this verse
“"Blessed is that man that makes the name of the Lord his trust, and has not respected vanities or lying madnesses" [Psalm 40:4]. Behold the way by which you would fain have gone. Behold the "multitude that fill the Broad way." It is not without reason "that" road leads to the amphitheatre. It is not without reason it…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4May the Lord help him upon the bed of his pain; Thou hast made all his bed in his sickness.
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2Blessed is the man who thinks on the poor and needy: The Lord shall deliver him in an evil day.
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.
— Psalms 40:4 —
5I said, O Lord, have mercy upon me; Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.
6Mine enemies have spoken evil against me, saying, When shall he die, and his name perish?