Psalms 73

NEW JERUSALEM	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 [Psalm Of Asaph] Indeed God is good to Israel, the Lord to those who are pure of heart.	1 A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.
2 My feet were on the point of stumbling, a little more and I had slipped,	2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, 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 of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For them no such thing as pain, untroubled, their comfortable portliness;	4 For they have no pangs; their bodies are sound and sleek.
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 are; they are not stricken like other men.
6 So pride is a necklace to them, violence the garment they wear.	6 Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
7 From their fat oozes out malice, their hearts drip with cunning.	7 Their eyes swell out with fatness, their hearts overflow with follies.
8 Cynical y they advocate evil, loftily they advocate force.	8 They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
9 Their mouth claims heaven for themselves, and their tongue is never stil on earth.	9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 That is why my people turn to them, and enjoy the waters of plenty,	10 Therefore the people turn and praise them; and find no fault in them.
11 saying, 'How can God know? What knowledge can the Most High have?'	11 And they say, "How can God know? 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 wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
13 Was it useless, then, to have kept my own heart clean, to have washed my hands in innocence?	13 All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
14 When I was under a hail of blows al day long, and punished every morning,	14 For all the day long I have been stricken, and chastened every morning.
15 had I said, 'I shal talk like them,' I should have betrayed your children's race.	15 If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have been untrue to the generation of thy children.
16 So I set myself to understand this: how difficult I found it!	16 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
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 I perceived their end.
18 You place them on a slippery slope and drive them down into chaos.	18 Truly thou dost set them in slippery places; thou dost make them fall to ruin.
19 How sudden their hideous destruction! They are swept away, annihilated by terror!	19 How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
20 Like a dream upon waking, Lord, when you awake, you dismiss their image.	20 They are like a dream when one awakes, on awaking you despise their phantoms.
21 My heart grew embittered, my affections dried up,	21 When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was stupid and uncomprehending, a clumsy animal in your presence.	22 I was stupid and ignorant, I was like a beast toward thee.
23 Even so, I stayed in your presence, you grasped me by the right hand;	23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee; thou dost hold my right hand.
24 you will guide me with advice, and wil draw me in the wake of your glory.	24 Thou dost guide me with thy counsel, and afterward thou wilt 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 nothing upon earth that I desire besides 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 may fail, 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, those who are far from thee shall perish; thou dost put an end to those who are false 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 for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.