Psalms 73

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW JERUSALEM
1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!	1 [Psalm Of Asaph] Indeed God is good to Israel, the Lord to those who are pure of heart.
2 But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.	2 My feet were on the point of stumbling, a little more and I had slipped,
3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.	3 envying the arrogant as I did, and seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.	4 For them no such thing as pain, untroubled, their comfortable portliness;
5 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. B Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.	5 exempt from the cares which are the human lot, they have no part in Adam's afflictions.
6 dummy verses inserted by amos	6 So pride is a necklace to them, violence the garment they wear.
7 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.	7 From their fat oozes out malice, their hearts drip with cunning.
8 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.	8 Cynical y they advocate evil, loftily they advocate force.
9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.	9 Their mouth claims heaven for themselves, and their tongue is never stil on earth.
10 Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.	10 That is why my people turn to them, and enjoy the waters of plenty,
11 And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?	11 saying, 'How can God know? What knowledge can the Most High have?'
12 Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.	12 That is what the wicked are like, piling up wealth without any worries.
13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.	13 Was it useless, then, to have kept my own heart clean, to have washed my hands in innocence?
14 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.	14 When I was under a hail of blows al day long, and punished every morning,
15 If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.	15 had I said, 'I shal talk like them,' I should have betrayed your children's race.
16 I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:	16 So I set myself to understand this: how difficult I found it!
17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.	17 Until I went into the sanctuaries of the gods and understood what was destined to become of them.
18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.	18 You place them on a slippery slope and drive them down into chaos.
19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.	19 How sudden their hideous destruction! They are swept away, annihilated by terror!
20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.	20 Like a dream upon waking, Lord, when you awake, you dismiss their image.
21 For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:	21 My heart grew embittered, my affections dried up,
22 and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.	22 I was stupid and uncomprehending, a clumsy animal in your presence.
23 I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.	23 Even so, I stayed in your presence, you grasped me by the right hand;
24 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.	24 you will guide me with advice, and wil draw me in the wake of your glory.
25 For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?	25 Who else is there for me in heaven? And, with you, I lack nothing on earth.
26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.	26 My heart and my flesh are pining away: my heart's rock, my portion, God for ever!
27 For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.	27 Truly, those who abandon you will perish; you destroy those who adulterously desert you,
28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.	28 whereas my happiness is to be near God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, to tel of al yourworks.