| 1 Salmo de Asaf. |¡Qué bueno es Dios para el justo, | Dios para los limpios de corazón! | 1 The understanding of Asaph. O God, why have you rejected us to the end. Why has your fury become enraged over the sheep of your pasture? |
| 2 Pero yo por poco doy un mal paso, | casi resbalaron mis pisadas: | 2 Be mindful of your congregation, which you have possessed from the beginning. You redeemed the scepter of your inheritance, mount Zion, in which you have dwelt. |
| 3 porque envidiaba a los perversos, | viendo prosperar a los malvados. | 3 Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary! |
| 4 Para ellos no hay sinsabores, | están sanos y orondos; | 4 And those who hate you have been glorified, in the midst of your solemnity. They have set up their own signs as a proof, |
| 5 no pasan las fatigas humanas, | ni sufren como los demás. | 5 as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood, |
| 6 Por eso su collar es el orgullo, | y los cubre un vestido de violencia; | 6 they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down. |
| 7 de las carnes les rezuma la maldad, | el corazón les rebosa de malas ideas. | 7 They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth. |
| 8 Insultan y hablan mal, | y desde lo alto amenazan con la opresión. | 8 They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: “Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land. |
| 9 Su boca se atreve con el cielo. | Y su lengua recorre la tierra. | 9 We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.” |
| 10 Por eso se sientan en lo alto | y las aguas no los alcanzan. | 10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end? |
| 11 Ellos dicen: «¿Es que Dios lo va a saber, | se va a enterar el Altísimo?». | 11 Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end? |
| 12 Así son los malvados: | siempre seguros, acumulan riquezas. | 12 But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. |
| 13 Y dije: ¿para qué he limpiado yo mi corazón | y he lavado en la inocencia mis manos? | 13 In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters. |
| 14 ¿Para qué aguanto yo todo el día | y me corrijo cada mañana? | 14 You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians. |
| 15 Si yo dijera: «Voy a hablar con ellos», | renegaría de la estirpe de tus hijos. | 15 You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan. |
| 16 Meditaba yo para entenderlo, | porque me resultaba muy difícil. | 16 Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun. |
| 17 Hasta que entré en el santuario de Dios, | y comprendí el destino de ellos. | 17 You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you. |
| 18 Es verdad: los pones en el resbaladero, | los precipitas en la ruina. | 18 Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name. |
| 19 En un momento causan horror, | y acaban consumidos de espanto. | 19 Do not hand over to beasts the souls that confess to you; and do not forget the souls of your poor until the end. |
| 20 Como un sueño al despertar, Señor, | al despertarte desprecias sus sombras. | 20 Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses. |
| 21 Cuando mi corazón se agriaba | y me punzaba mi interior, | 21 Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name. |
| 22 yo era un necio y un ignorante, | yo era un animal ante ti. | 22 Rise up, O God, judge your own case. Call to mind the accusations against you, which are made by the foolish all day long. |
| 23 Pero yo siempre estaré contigo, | tú agarrarás mi mano derecha; | 23 Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually. |
| 24 me guías según tus planes, | y después me recibirás en la gloria. | |
| 25 ¿No te tengo a ti en el cielo? | Y contigo, ¿qué me importa la tierra? | |
| 26 Se consumen mi corazón y mi carne; | pero Dios es la roca de mi corazón y mi lote perpetuo. | |
| 27 Sí: los que se alejan de ti se pierden; | tú destruyes a los que te son infieles. | |
| 28 Para mí lo bueno es estar junto a Dios, | hacer del Señor Dios mi refugio, | y contar todas tus acciones | en las puertas de Sión. | |