Psalms 73:1
A Psalm of Asaph. Only--good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I--as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,
Psalms 73:2
As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
Psalms 73:3
The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
Psalms 73:4
And their might is firm.
Psalms 73:5
In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
Psalms 73:7
Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
Psalms 73:8
They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
Psalms 73:9
They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
Psalms 73:10
Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
Psalms 73:11
And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
Psalms 73:12
Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
Psalms 73:13
Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
Psalms 73:14
And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.
Psalms 73:15
If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
Psalms 73:16
And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,
Psalms 73:17
Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
Psalms 73:18
Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
Psalms 73:19
How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.
Psalms 73:20
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
Psalms 73:21
For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
Psalms 73:22
And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
Psalms 73:23
And I am continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.
Psalms 73:24
With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
Psalms 73:25
Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.
Psalms 73:26
Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.
Psalms 73:27
For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.
Psalms 73:28
And I--nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!