Psalms 73
1 God truly is good to [us] Israeli people, to those who totally want to do all that God desires.
A Psalme committed to Asaph. Yet God is good to Israel: euen, to the pure in heart.
2 As for me, I almost [stopped trusting in God]; [it was as though] my feet slipped and I stumbled [MET],
As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well neere slipt.
3 because I envied those who proudly [said that they did not need God], and I saw that they prospered [even though] they were wicked.
For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.
4 Those people do not have any pains; they are [always] strong and healthy.
For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.
5 They do not have the troubles/difficulties that other people have; they do not have problems like others do.
They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.
6 So they are proud, and their being proud is [like] a necklace [that they show to others], and they show off their violent actions like people show off their beautiful robes.
Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.
7 From their inner beings they (pour out/do) evil deeds, and they are always thinking about more evil things to do.
Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.
8 They scoff at [other people], and they talk about doing evil things to them; they are proud while they plan to oppress others.
They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.
9 They say evil things about [God who is in] heaven [MTY], and they talk boastfully/proudly about things [that they have done] here on the earth.
They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 The result is that people listen to what they say and praise them and do not think that they have done anything that is wrong.
Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 Wicked people say [to themselves], “God will certainly not [RHQ] know [what we have done]; [people say that] he is greater than any other god, but he does not know [everything].”
And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?
12 That is what wicked people are like; they never worry about anything, and they are always becoming richer.
Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.
13 [So, God], I think it is useless that I have [RHQ] always done what you want me to, and that I have not sinned.
Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
14 All day long I have problems, and every morning you punish me.
For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.
15 If I had said the things that the wicked people say, I would have been sinning against your people.
If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.
16 And when I tried to think about all this, it was very difficult for me [to understand it].
Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,
17 But when I went to your temple, [you spoke to me], and I understood what will happen to the wicked people [after they die].
Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.
18 [Now I know that] you will surely put them in slippery places, and they will fall down and die.
Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.
19 They will be destroyed instantly; they will die in terrible ways.
How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,
20 They [will disappear as quickly] as a dream disappears when a person awakes in the morning; Lord, when you arise, you will (cause them to disappear/forget all about them).
As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
21 When I felt sad/bitter, and brokenhearted,
Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:
22 I was stupid and ignorant, and I behaved like an animal toward you.
So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
23 But I am always close to you, and you hold my hand.
Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 You guide me by teaching me, and (at the end [of my life]/when I die), you will receive me and honor me.
Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.
25 You are in heaven and I belong to you [RHQ], and there is nothing on this earth that I desire more than that.
Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee.
26 My body and my mind may become very weak, but God, you continue to enable me to be strong; I belong to you forever.
My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.
27 Those who remain far from you will be destroyed; you will get rid of those who abandon you.
For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.
28 But [as for] me, it is wonderful to be near to God and to be protected by Yahweh, and to proclaim to others all that he has done [for me].
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.
