Psalms 73
1 A psalm of Asaph surely [is] good to Israel God to [people] pure of heart.
A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
2 And I like a little (they had turned aside *Q(K)*) feet my like nothing (they had been poured out *Q(K)*) steps my.
But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 For I was jealous of the boasters [the] well-being of wicked [people] I saw.
Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
4 That there not [are] pangs to death their and [is] fat body their.
For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
5 [are] in [the] trouble of Humankind not they and with humankind not they are stricken.
They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
6 Therefore [it is] a necklace [for] them pride it covers a garment of violence them.
Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
7 It comes out from fat eye their they pass over [the] imaginations of heart.
Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
8 They mock - and they may speak with evil oppression from a high place they speak.
They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
9 They set in the heavens mouth their and tongue their it walks on the earth.
They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
10 Therefore - (it turns back *Q(K)*) people his here and waters of full they are drained by them.
Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
11 And they say how? does he know God and [is] there? knowledge with [the] Most High.
And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Here! these [are] wicked [people] and [people] at ease of perpetuity they increase wealth.
Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
13 Surely vanity I have kept pure heart my and I have washed in innocence hands my.
And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
14 And I have been stricken all the day and rebuke my [has been] to the mornings.
And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15 If I had said I will speak like here! [the] generation of children your I dealt treacherously with.
If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
16 And I thought! to know this [was] trouble (it *Q(K)*) in view my.
I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
17 Until I went into [the] sanctuari of God I considered end their.
Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
18 Surely on slippery [places] you set them you make fall them to deceptions.
But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
19 How! they have become a waste like a moment they come to an end they are finished from sudden terror.
How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
20 Like a dream from when awakes O Lord when waken - image their you will despise.
As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
21 If it was embittered heart my and kidneys my I was pierced.
For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
22 And I [was] stupid and not I knew animals I was with you.
And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
23 And I continually [am] with you you take hold on [the] hand of right my.
I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
24 With counsel your you guide me and after honor you will take me.
Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
25 Who? [belongs] to me in the heavens and with you not I take pleasure on the earth.
For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
26 It had come to an end flesh my and heart my [is] [the] rock of heart my and portion my God for ever.
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
27 For there! [people] far from you they will perish you destroy every [one who] acts as a prostitute from you.
For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
28 And I - [the] approach of God for me [is] good I have made - in [the] Lord Yahweh refuge my to recount all works your.
But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
