Psalms 73
1 BOOK III A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart.
melody to/for Asaph surely pleasant to/for Israel God to/for pure heart
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
and I like/as little (to stretch *Q(K)*) foot my like/as nothing (to pour: scatter *Q(K)*) step my
3 For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
for be jealous in/on/with to be foolish peace: well-being wicked to see: see
4 For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound.
for nothing bond to/for death their and fat strength their
5 In the trouble of man they are not; neither are they plagued like men.
in/on/with trouble human nothing they and with man not to touch
6 Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.
to/for so to ornament them pride to envelope garment violence to/for them
7 Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.
to come out: come from fat eye their to pass figure heart
8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression; they speak as if there were none on high.
to mock and to speak: speak in/on/with bad: evil oppression from height to speak: speak
9 They have set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
to appoint in/on/with heaven lip their and tongue their to go: walk in/on/with land: country/planet
10 Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them.
to/for so (to return: return *Q(K)*) people his here and water full to drain to/for them
11 And they say: 'How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
and to say how? to know God and there knowledge in/on/with Most High
12 Behold, such are the wicked; and they that are always at ease increase riches.
behold these wicked and at ease forever: enduring to increase strength: rich
13 Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;
surely vain to clean heart my and to wash: wash in/on/with innocence palm my
14 For all the day have I been plagued, and my chastisement came every morning.
and to be to touch all [the] day and argument my to/for morning
15 If I had said: 'I will speak thus', behold, I had been faithless to the generation of Thy children.
if to say to recount like behold generation son: child your to act treacherously
16 And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;
and to devise: think [emph?] to/for to know this trouble (he/she/it *Q(K)*) in/on/with eye: appearance my
17 Until I entered into the sanctuary of God, and considered their end.
till to come (in): come to(wards) sanctuary God to understand to/for end their
18 Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.
surely in/on/with smoothness to set: make to/for them to fall: fall them to/for desolation
19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors.
how? to be to/for horror: destroyed like/as moment to cease to finish from terror
20 As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.
like/as dream from to awake Lord in/on/with to rouse image their to despise
21 For my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins.
for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen
22 But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.
and I stupid and not to know animal to be with you
23 Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou holdest my right hand.
and I continually with you to grasp in/on/with hand right my
24 Thou wilt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me with glory.
in/on/with counsel your to lead me and after glory to take: recieve me
25 Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And beside Thee I desire none upon earth.
who? to/for me in/on/with heaven and with you not to delight in in/on/with land: country/planet
26 My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
to end: expend flesh my and heart my rock heart my and portion my God to/for forever: enduring
27 For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee.
for behold removed your to perish to destroy all to fornicate from you
28 But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works.
and I nearness God to/for me pleasant to set: make in/on/with Lord YHWH/God refuge my to/for to recount all work your
