Psalms 73

1 melody to/for Asaph surely pleasant to/for Israel God to/for pure heart

[A Psalm by Asaph.] Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in 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 nearly slipped.

3 for be jealous in/on/with to be foolish peace: well-being wicked to see: see

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

4 for nothing bond to/for death their and fat strength their

For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

5 in/on/with trouble human nothing they and with man not to touch

They are free from burdens of 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 is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

7 to come out: come from fat eye their to pass figure heart

Their sin proceeds forth from fatness. Their hearts overflow with imaginations.

8 to mock and to speak: speak in/on/with bad: evil oppression from height to speak: speak

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

9 to appoint in/on/with heaven lip their and tongue their to go: walk in/on/with land: country/planet

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks 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 to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

11 and to say how? to know God and there knowledge in/on/with Most High

They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

12 behold these wicked and at ease forever: enduring to increase strength: rich

Look, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

13 surely vain to clean heart my and to wash: wash in/on/with innocence palm my

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

14 and to be to touch all [the] day and argument my to/for morning

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

15 if to say to recount like behold generation son: child your to act treacherously

If I had said, "I will speak thus;" look, I would have betrayed the generation of your 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 tried to understand 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 entered God's sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

18 surely in/on/with smoothness to set: make to/for them to fall: fall them to/for desolation

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

19 how? to be to/for horror: destroyed like/as moment to cease to finish from terror

How they are suddenly destroyed. They are completely swept away with terrors.

20 like/as dream from to awake Lord in/on/with to rouse image their to despise

As a dream when one wakes up, so, LORD, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

21 for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

22 and I stupid and not to know animal to be with you

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

23 and I continually with you to grasp in/on/with hand right my

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

24 in/on/with counsel your to lead me and after glory to take: recieve me

You will guide me with your 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

Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth who I desire besides you.

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 fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

27 for behold removed your to perish to destroy all to fornicate from you

For, look, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

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 come close to God. I have made the LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works in the gates of the daughter of Zion.