Psalms 73

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 [Psalm Of Asaph] Indeed God is good to Israel, the Lord to those who are pure of heart.	1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2 My feet were on the point of stumbling, a little more and I had slipped,	2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3 envying the arrogant as I did, and seeing the prosperity of the wicked.	3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For them no such thing as pain, untroubled, their comfortable portliness;	4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5 exempt from the cares which are the human lot, they have no part in Adam's afflictions.	5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6 So pride is a necklace to them, violence the garment they wear.	6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7 From their fat oozes out malice, their hearts drip with cunning.	7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8 Cynical y they advocate evil, loftily they advocate force.	8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9 Their mouth claims heaven for themselves, and their tongue is never stil on earth.	9 They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10 That is why my people turn to them, and enjoy the waters of plenty,	10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11 saying, 'How can God know? What knowledge can the Most High have?'	11 And they say, 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 the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13 Was it useless, then, to have kept my own heart clean, to have washed my hands in innocence?	13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14 When I was under a hail of blows al day long, and punished every morning,	14 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15 had I said, 'I shal talk like them,' I should have betrayed your children's race.	15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16 So I set myself to understand this: how difficult I found it!	16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17 Until I went into the sanctuaries of the gods and understood what was destined to become of them.	17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18 You place them on a slippery slope and drive them down into chaos.	18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19 How sudden their hideous destruction! They are swept away, annihilated by terror!	19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 Like a dream upon waking, Lord, when you awake, you dismiss their image.	20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21 My heart grew embittered, my affections dried up,	21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22 I was stupid and uncomprehending, a clumsy animal in your presence.	22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
23 Even so, I stayed in your presence, you grasped me by the right hand;	23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24 you will guide me with advice, and wil draw me in the wake of your glory.	24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Who else is there for me in heaven? And, with you, I lack nothing on earth.	25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
26 My heart and my flesh are pining away: my heart's rock, my portion, God for ever!	26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27 Truly, those who abandon you will perish; you destroy those who adulterously desert you,	27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from 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 draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.