Victory over Betrayal
(John 13:18–30)

1For the one directing. A Psalm of David.

1 Blessed is he who acts wisely toward the poor;

in a day of evil, YHWH will rescue him.

2YHWH will guard him and keep him alive;

he will be blessed in the land,

and You will not deliver him

to the will of his enemies.

3YHWH will support him on his couch of illness;

You turn over all his bed in his sickness.

4I said, “O YHWH, be gracious to me;

heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”

5My enemies speak evil against me:

“When will he die and his name perish?”

6And if one comes to see me, he speaks emptiness;

his heart gathers iniquity for himself;

he goes out—at the street he speaks.

7All those hating me, they whisper together against me; against me

they devise evil to me:

8“Let a thing of destruction be poured into him,

and he who lies down shall not rise up again.”

9Even a man of my welfare,

he in whom I trusted,

who ate my bread,

has lifted up the heel against me.†

10But You, O YHWH, show favor to me and raise me up,

that I may repay them!

11By this I know that You have delighted in me:

That my enemy will not shout over me.

12And I, in my integrity, may You take hold of me

and set me before Your face forever.

13Blessed be YHWH, God of Israel,

from forever and even to forever!

Amen and Amen.