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,
`The salm of Asaph. God of Israel is ful good; to hem that ben of riytful herte.
2 As nothing, my steps have slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
But my feet weren moued almeest; my steppis weren sched out almeest.
3 I see the peace of the wicked, That there are no bands at their death,
For Y louede feruentli on wickid men; seynge the pees of synneris.
4 And their might [is] firm.
For biholdyng is not to the deth of hem; and stidefastnesse in the sikenesse of hem.
5 They are not in the misery of mortals, And they are not plagued with common men.
Thei ben not in the trauel of men; and thei schulen not be betun with men.
6 Therefore pride has encircled them, Violence covers them as a dress.
Therfore pride helde hem; thei weren hilid with her wickidnesse and vnfeithfulnesse.
7 Their eye has come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
The wickidnesse of hem cam forth as of fatnesse; thei yeden in to desire of herte.
8 They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, They speak from on high.
Thei thouyten and spaken weiwardnesse; thei spaken wickidnesse an hiy.
9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walks in the earth.
Thei puttiden her mouth in to heuene; and her tunge passide in erthe.
10 Therefore His people return here, And waters of fullness are wrung out to them.
Therfor my puple schal be conuertid here; and fulle daies schulen be foundun in hem.
11 And they have said, “How has God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”
And thei seiden, How woot God; and whether kunnyng is an heiye, `that is, in heuene?
12 Behold, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
Lo! thilke synneris and hauynge aboundance in the world; helden richessis.
13 Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash my hands in innocence,
And Y seide, Therfor without cause Y iustifiede myn herte; and waischide myn hoondis among innocentis.
14 And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof—every morning.
And Y was betun al dai; and my chastisyng was in morutidis.
15 If I have said, “I recount thus,” Behold, I have deceived a generation of Your sons.
If Y seide, Y schal telle thus; lo! Y repreuede the nacioun of thi sones.
16 And I think to know this, It [is] perverseness in my eyes,
I gesside, that Y schulde knowe this; trauel is bifore me.
17 Until I come into the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
Til Y entre in to the seyntuarie of God; and vndurstonde in the last thingis of hem.
18 Surely You set them in slippery places, You have caused them to fall to desolations.
Netheles for gilis thou hast put to hem; thou castidist hem doun, while thei weren reisid.
19 How they have become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors.
Hou ben thei maad into desolacioun; thei failiden sodeynli, thei perischiden for her wickidnesse.
20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, You despise their image.
As the dreem of men that risen; Lord, thou schalt dryue her ymage to nouyt in thi citee.
21 For my heart shows itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
For myn herte is enflaumed, and my reynes ben chaungid;
22 And I am brutish, and do not know. I have been a beast with You.
and Y am dryuun to nouyt, and Y wiste not.
23 And I [am] continually with You, You have laid hold on my right hand.
As a werk beeste Y am maad at thee; and Y am euere with thee.
24 You lead me with Your counsel, And after, receive me [to] glory.
Thou heldist my riythond, and in thi wille thou leddist me forth; and with glorie thou tokist me vp.
25 Whom do I have in the heavens? And none have I desired in earth [besides] You.
For whi what is to me in heuene; and what wolde Y of thee on erthe?
26 My flesh and my heart have been consumed, God [is] the rock of my heart and my portion for all time.
Mi fleische and myn herte failide; God of myn herte, and my part is God withouten ende.
27 For behold, those far from You perish, You have cut off everyone, Who is going whoring from You.
For lo! thei that drawen awei fer hem silf fro thee, `bi deedli synne, schulen perische; thou hast lost alle men that doen fornycacioun fro thee.
28 And [the] nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed my refuge in Lord YHWH, To recount all Your works!
But it is good to me to cleue to God; and to sette myn hope in the Lord God. That Y telle alle thi prechyngis; in the yatis of the douyter of Syon.
