< 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, [even] to such as are of a clean 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 foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 for nothing bond to/for death their and fat strength their
For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.
5 in/on/with trouble human nothing they and with man not to touch
They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they plagued like [other] men.
6 to/for so to ornament them pride to envelope garment violence to/for them
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.
7 to come out: come from fat eye their to pass figure heart
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 to mock and to speak: speak in/on/with bad: evil oppression from height to speak: speak
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] 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 against 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 return hither: and waters of a full [cup] 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 doth 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 ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.
13 surely vain to clean heart my and to wash: wash in/on/with innocence palm my
Verily I have cleansed 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 long 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 say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] 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 know this, it [was] too painful for me;
17 till to come (in): come to(wards) sanctuary God to understand to/for end their
Until I went into the sanctuary 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
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 how? to be to/for horror: destroyed like/as moment to cease to finish from terror
How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly 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; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21 for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 and I stupid and not to know animal to be with you
So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.
23 and I continually with you to grasp in/on/with hand right my
Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast holden [me] by my right hand.
24 in/on/with counsel your to lead me and after glory to take: recieve me
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory.
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 heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] 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: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27 for behold removed your to perish to destroy all to fornicate from you
For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go 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 [it is] good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.