The Book of Psalms 73 |
The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
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! |