Psalms 73

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

A psalm of Asaph. Yes, God is good to the upright, the Lord to the 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 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

through envy of godless braggarts, when I saw how well they fared.

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

For never a pang have they, their body is sound and sleek.

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

They have no trouble like mortals, no share in human pain.

6 to/for so to ornament them pride to envelope garment violence to/for them

So they wear their pride like a necklace, they put on the garment of wrong,

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

their eyes stand out with fatness, their heart swells with riotous fancies.

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

Their speech is mocking and evil, condescending and crooked their speech.

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, while their tongue struts about on the earth.

10 to/for so (to return: return *Q(K)*) people his here and water full to drain to/for them

Small wonder that people resort to them, and drink deep draughts of their lore.

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

‘How does God know?’ they say, ‘And has the Most High any knowledge?’

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

See! These are the godless, with wealth and ease ever increasing.

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

Yes, in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence;

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

for all the day long was I plagued not a morning but I was chastised.

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

But to resolve to speak like they do would be treachery to 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

So I sought to understand it, but a wearisome task it seemed:

17 till to come (in): come to(wards) sanctuary God to understand to/for end their

till I entered the holy world of God and saw clearly their destiny.

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

Yes, you set them on slippery places; down to destruction you hurl them.

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

One moment and then what a horror of ruin! They are finished and ended in terrors.

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

Like a dream, when one wakes, shall they be, whose phantoms the waker despises.

21 for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen

So my bitterness of mind and the pain that stabbed my heart

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

show how dull I was and stupid just like a beast before you.

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

But I am always with you, you have hold of my right hand.

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

By a plan of yours you guide me and will afterward take 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 the heavens but you? And on earth there is none I desire beside you.

26 to end: expend flesh my and heart my rock heart my and portion my God to/for forever: enduring

Though flesh and heart waste away, yet God is the rock of my heart, yet God is my portion forever.

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

For see! Those who are far from you must perish, you destroy all who are false 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 I am happy when close to God; the Lord my God I have made my refuge, that I may recount all the things you have done.