Psalms 73

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW JERUSALEM
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?	1 [Psalm Of Asaph] Indeed God is good to Israel, the Lord to those who are pure of heart.
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.	2 My feet were on the point of stumbling, a little more and I had slipped,
3 Lift up your hands against their arrogance in the end. How great the malice of the enemy has been in the sanctuary!	3 envying the arrogant as I did, and seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
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,	4 For them no such thing as pain, untroubled, their comfortable portliness;
5 as if it had been issued from on high; yet they did not understand. As in a forest of chopped wood,	5 exempt from the cares which are the human lot, they have no part in Adam's afflictions.
6 they have cut down the entrances themselves. With axe and hatchet, they have brought it down.	6 So pride is a necklace to them, violence the garment they wear.
7 They have set fire to your Sanctuary. They have polluted the tabernacle of your name on earth.	7 From their fat oozes out malice, their hearts drip with cunning.
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.	8 Cynical y they advocate evil, loftily they advocate force.
9 We have not seen our proof; there is now no prophet. And he will no longer know us.”	9 Their mouth claims heaven for themselves, and their tongue is never stil on earth.
10 How long, O God, will the enemy place blame? Is the adversary to provoke your name until the end?	10 That is why my people turn to them, and enjoy the waters of plenty,
11 Why do you turn your hand away, even your right hand, from the midst of your sinews, until the end?	11 saying, 'How can God know? What knowledge can the Most High have?'
12 But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.	12 That is what the wicked are like, piling up wealth without any worries.
13 In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.	13 Was it useless, then, to have kept my own heart clean, to have washed my hands in innocence?
14 You have broken the heads of the serpent. You have given him as food for the people of the Ethiopians.	14 When I was under a hail of blows al day long, and punished every morning,
15 You have disrupted the fountains and the torrents. You have dried up the rivers of Ethan.	15 had I said, 'I shal talk like them,' I should have betrayed your children's race.
16 Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.	16 So I set myself to understand this: how difficult I found it!
17 You have made all the limits of the earth. The summer and the spring were formed by you.	17 Until I went into the sanctuaries of the gods and understood what was destined to become of them.
18 Be mindful of this: the enemy placed blame against the Lord, and a foolish people has incited against your name.	18 You place them on a slippery slope and drive them down into chaos.
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.	19 How sudden their hideous destruction! They are swept away, annihilated by terror!
20 Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.	20 Like a dream upon waking, Lord, when you awake, you dismiss their image.
21 Do not allow the humble to be turned away in confusion. The poor and the needy will praise your name.	21 My heart grew embittered, my affections dried up,
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.	22 I was stupid and uncomprehending, a clumsy animal in your presence.
23 Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.	23 Even so, I stayed in your presence, you grasped me by the right hand;
	24 you will guide me with advice, and wil draw me in the wake of your glory.
	25 Who else is there for me in heaven? And, with you, I lack nothing on earth.
	26 My heart and my flesh are pining away: my heart's rock, my portion, God for ever!
	27 Truly, those who abandon you will perish; you destroy those who adulterously desert you,
	28 whereas my happiness is to be near God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, to tel of al yourworks.