< Psalms 73 >
1 A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.
melody to/for Asaph surely pleasant to/for Israel God to/for pure heart
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
and I like/as little (to stretch *Q(K)*) foot my like/as nothing (to pour: scatter *Q(K)*) step my
3 For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
for be jealous in/on/with to be foolish peace: well-being wicked to see: see
4 For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm.
for nothing bond to/for death their and fat strength their
5 They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they afflicted like [other] men.
in/on/with trouble human nothing they and with man not to touch
6 Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.
to/for so to ornament them pride to envelope garment violence to/for them
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
to come out: come from fat eye their to pass figure heart
8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.
to mock and to speak: speak in/on/with bad: evil oppression from height to speak: speak
9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
to appoint in/on/with heaven lip their and tongue their to go: walk in/on/with land: country/planet
10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full [cup] are wrung out to them.
to/for so (to return: return *Q(K)*) people his here and water full to drain to/for them
11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?
and to say how? to know God and there knowledge in/on/with Most High
12 Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.
behold these wicked and at ease forever: enduring to increase strength: rich
13 Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocence.
surely vain to clean heart my and to wash: wash in/on/with innocence palm my
14 For all the day long have I been afflicted, and chastened every morning.
and to be to touch all [the] day and argument my to/for morning
15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.
if to say to recount like behold generation son: child your to act treacherously
16 When I thought to know this, it [was] too painful for me;
and to devise: think [emph?] to/for to know this trouble (he/she/it *Q(K)*) in/on/with eye: appearance my
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; [then] I understood their end.
till to come (in): come to(wards) sanctuary God to understand to/for end their
18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou didst cast them down into destruction.
surely in/on/with smoothness to set: make to/for them to fall: fall them to/for desolation
19 How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
how? to be to/for horror: destroyed like/as moment to cease to finish from terror
20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O LORD, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
like/as dream from to awake Lord in/on/with to rouse image their to despise
21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen
22 So foolish [was] I, and ignorant: I was [as] a beast before thee.
and I stupid and not to know animal to be with you
23 Nevertheless I [am] continually with thee: thou hast held [me] by my right hand.
and I continually with you to grasp in/on/with hand right my
24 Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me [to] glory.
in/on/with counsel your to lead me and after glory to take: recieve me
25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? and [there is] none upon earth [that] I desire besides thee.
who? to/for me in/on/with heaven and with you not to delight in in/on/with land: country/planet
26 My flesh and my heart faileth: [but] God [is] the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
to end: expend flesh my and heart my rock heart my and portion my God to/for forever: enduring
27 For lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go astray from thee.
for behold removed your to perish to destroy all to fornicate from you
28 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.
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