< Psalms 73 >
1 A psalm of Asaph surely [is] good to Israel God to [people] pure of heart.
A Psalme committed to Asaph. Yet God is good to Israel: euen, to the pure in 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.
As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well neere slipt.
3 For I was jealous of the boasters [the] well-being of wicked [people] I saw.
For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.
4 That there not [are] pangs to death their and [is] fat body their.
For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.
5 [are] in [the] trouble of Humankind not they and with humankind not they are stricken.
They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.
6 Therefore [it is] a necklace [for] them pride it covers a garment of violence them.
Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.
7 It comes out from fat eye their they pass over [the] imaginations of heart.
Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.
8 They mock - and they may speak with evil oppression from a high place they speak.
They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.
9 They set in the heavens mouth their and tongue their it walks on the earth.
They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 Therefore - (it turns back *Q(K)*) people his here and waters of full they are drained by them.
Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 And they say how? does he know God and [is] there? knowledge with [the] Most High.
And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?
12 Here! these [are] wicked [people] and [people] at ease of perpetuity they increase wealth.
Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.
13 Surely vanity I have kept pure heart my and I have washed in innocence hands my.
Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
14 And I have been stricken all the day and rebuke my [has been] to the mornings.
For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.
15 If I had said I will speak like here! [the] generation of children your I dealt treacherously with.
If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.
16 And I thought! to know this [was] trouble (it *Q(K)*) in view my.
Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,
17 Until I went into [the] sanctuari of God I considered end their.
Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.
18 Surely on slippery [places] you set them you make fall them to deceptions.
Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.
19 How! they have become a waste like a moment they come to an end they are finished from sudden terror.
How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,
20 Like a dream from when awakes O Lord when waken - image their you will despise.
As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
21 If it was embittered heart my and kidneys my I was pierced.
Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:
22 And I [was] stupid and not I knew animals I was with you.
So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
23 And I continually [am] with you you take hold on [the] hand of right my.
Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 With counsel your you guide me and after honor you will take me.
Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.
25 Who? [belongs] to me in the heavens and with you not I take pleasure on the earth.
Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee.
26 It had come to an end flesh my and heart my [is] [the] rock of heart my and portion my God for ever.
My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.
27 For there! [people] far from you they will perish you destroy every [one who] acts as a prostitute from you.
For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from 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.
As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.