Psalms 73

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [Psalm Of Asaph] Indeed God is good to Israel, the Lord to those who are pure of heart.	1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
2 My feet were on the point of stumbling, a little more and I had slipped,	2 But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 envying the arrogant as I did, and seeing the prosperity of the wicked.	3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
4 For them no such thing as pain, untroubled, their comfortable portliness;	4 For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
5 exempt from the cares which are the human lot, they have no part in Adam's afflictions.	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.
6 So pride is a necklace to them, violence the garment they wear.	6 dummy verses inserted by amos
7 From their fat oozes out malice, their hearts drip with cunning.	7 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
8 Cynical y they advocate evil, loftily they advocate force.	8 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
9 Their mouth claims heaven for themselves, and their tongue is never stil on earth.	9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
10 That is why my people turn to them, and enjoy the waters of plenty,	10 Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
11 saying, 'How can God know? What knowledge can the Most High have?'	11 And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12 That is what the wicked are like, piling up wealth without any worries.	12 Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
13 Was it useless, then, to have kept my own heart clean, to have washed my hands in innocence?	13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
14 When I was under a hail of blows al day long, and punished every morning,	14 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15 had I said, 'I shal talk like them,' I should have betrayed your children's race.	15 If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
16 So I set myself to understand this: how difficult I found it!	16 I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
17 Until I went into the sanctuaries of the gods and understood what was destined to become of them.	17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
18 You place them on a slippery slope and drive them down into chaos.	18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
19 How sudden their hideous destruction! They are swept away, annihilated by terror!	19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
20 Like a dream upon waking, Lord, when you awake, you dismiss their image.	20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
21 My heart grew embittered, my affections dried up,	21 For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
22 I was stupid and uncomprehending, a clumsy animal in your presence.	22 and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
23 Even so, I stayed in your presence, you grasped me by the right hand;	23 I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
24 you will guide me with advice, and wil draw me in the wake of your glory.	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.
25 Who else is there for me in heaven? And, with you, I lack nothing on earth.	25 For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
26 My heart and my flesh are pining away: my heart's rock, my portion, God for ever!	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.
27 Truly, those who abandon you will perish; you destroy those who adulterously desert you,	27 For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
28 whereas my happiness is to be near God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, to tel of al yourworks.	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.