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