Psalms 73

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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.

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