< Psalms 73 >

1 melody to/for Asaph surely pleasant to/for Israel God to/for pure heart
A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.
2 and I like/as little (to stretch *Q(K)*) foot my like/as nothing (to pour: scatter *Q(K)*) step my
But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped;
3 for be jealous in/on/with to be foolish peace: well-being wicked to see: see
For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
4 for nothing bond to/for death their and fat strength their
For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
5 in/on/with trouble human nothing they and with man not to touch
They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men:
6 to/for so to ornament them pride to envelope garment violence to/for them
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;
7 to come out: come from fat eye their to pass figure heart
Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
8 to mock and to speak: speak in/on/with bad: evil oppression from height to speak: speak
They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
9 to appoint in/on/with heaven lip their and tongue their to go: walk in/on/with land: country/planet
They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 to/for so (to return: return *Q(K)*) people his here and water full to drain to/for them
Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
11 and to say how? to know God and there knowledge in/on/with Most High
And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 behold these wicked and at ease forever: enduring to increase strength: rich
Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
13 surely vain to clean heart my and to wash: wash in/on/with innocence palm my
Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
14 and to be to touch all [the] day and argument my to/for morning
For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 if to say to recount like behold generation son: child your to act treacherously
If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
16 and to devise: think [emph?] to/for to know this trouble (he/she/it *Q(K)*) in/on/with eye: appearance my
When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
17 till to come (in): come to(wards) sanctuary God to understand to/for end their
Until I went into the sanctuaries of God; [then] understood I their end.
18 surely in/on/with smoothness to set: make to/for them to fall: fall them to/for desolation
Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
19 how? to be to/for horror: destroyed like/as moment to cease to finish from terror
How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
20 like/as dream from to awake Lord in/on/with to rouse image their to despise
As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
21 for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen
When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,
22 and I stupid and not to know animal to be with you
Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was [as] a beast with thee.
23 and I continually with you to grasp in/on/with hand right my
Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand;
24 in/on/with counsel your to lead me and after glory to take: recieve me
Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and after the glory, thou wilt receive me.
25 who? to/for me in/on/with heaven and with you not to delight in in/on/with land: country/planet
Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.
26 to end: expend flesh my and heart my rock heart my and portion my God to/for forever: enduring
My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
27 for behold removed your to perish to destroy all to fornicate from you
For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.
28 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
But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all thy works.

< Psalms 73 >