Psalms 73

1 A PSALM OF ASAPH. Surely God [is] good to Israel, to the clean of heart. And I—as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

melody to/for Asaph surely pleasant to/for Israel God to/for pure heart

2 As nothing, my steps have slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

and I like/as little (to stretch *Q(K)*) foot my like/as nothing (to pour: scatter *Q(K)*) step my

3 I see the peace of the wicked, That there are no bands at their death,

for be jealous in/on/with to be foolish peace: well-being wicked to see: see

4 And their might [is] firm.

for nothing bond to/for death their and fat strength their

5 They are not in the misery of mortals, And they are not plagued with common men.

in/on/with trouble human nothing they and with man not to touch

6 Therefore pride has encircled them, Violence covers them as a dress.

to/for so to ornament them pride to envelope garment violence to/for them

7 Their eye has come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

to come out: come from fat eye their to pass figure heart

8 They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, They speak from 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 in the heavens, And their tongue walks in 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 here, And waters of fullness are wrung out to them.

to/for so (to return: return *Q(K)*) people his here and water full to drain to/for them

11 And they have said, “How has God known? 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, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

behold these wicked and at ease forever: enduring to increase strength: rich

13 Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash my hands in innocence,

surely vain to clean heart my and to wash: wash in/on/with innocence palm my

14 And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof—every morning.

and to be to touch all [the] day and argument my to/for morning

15 If I have said, “I recount thus,” Behold, I have deceived a generation of Your sons.

if to say to recount like behold generation son: child your to act treacherously

16 And I think to know this, It [is] perverseness in my 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 come into the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

till to come (in): come to(wards) sanctuary God to understand to/for end their

18 Surely You set them in slippery places, You have caused them to fall to desolations.

surely in/on/with smoothness to set: make to/for them to fall: fall them to/for desolation

19 How they have become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors.

how? to be to/for horror: destroyed like/as moment to cease to finish from terror

20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, You despise their image.

like/as dream from to awake Lord in/on/with to rouse image their to despise

21 For my heart shows itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen

22 And I am brutish, and do not know. I have been a beast with You.

and I stupid and not to know animal to be with you

23 And I [am] continually with You, You have laid hold on my right hand.

and I continually with you to grasp in/on/with hand right my

24 You lead me with Your counsel, And after, receive me [to] glory.

in/on/with counsel your to lead me and after glory to take: recieve me

25 Whom do I have in the heavens? And none have I desired in earth [besides] You.

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 have been consumed, God [is] the rock of my heart and my portion for all time.

to end: expend flesh my and heart my rock heart my and portion my God to/for forever: enduring

27 For behold, those far from You perish, You have cut off everyone, Who is going whoring from You.

for behold removed your to perish to destroy all to fornicate from you

28 And [the] nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed my refuge in Lord YHWH, To recount all Your 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