اَلْمَزَامِيرُ 73

١ 1 مَزْمُورٌ. لِآسَافَ إِنَّمَا صَالِحٌ ٱللهُ لِإِسْرَائِيلَ، لِأَنْقِيَاءِ ٱلْقَلْبِ.

A Psalme committed to Asaph. Yet God is good to Israel: euen, to the pure in heart.

٢ 2 أَمَّا أَنَا فَكَادَتْ تَزِلُّ قَدَمَايَ. لَوْلَا قَلِيلٌ لَزَلِقَتْ خَطَوَاتِي.

As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well neere slipt.

٣ 3 لِأَنِّي غِرْتُ مِنَ ٱلْمُتَكَبِّرِينَ، إِذْ رَأَيْتُ سَلَامَةَ ٱلْأَشْرَارِ.

For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.

٤ 4 لِأَنَّهُ لَيْسَتْ فِي مَوْتِهِمْ شَدَائِدُ، وَجِسْمُهُمْ سَمِينٌ.

For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.

٥ 5 لَيْسُوا فِي تَعَبِ ٱلنَّاسِ، وَمَعَ ٱلْبَشَرِ لَا يُصَابُونَ.

They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

٦ 6 لِذَلِكَ تَقَلَّدُوا ٱلْكِبْرِيَاءَ. لَبِسُوا كَثَوْبٍ ظُلْمَهُمْ.

Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.

٧ 7 جَحَظَتْ عُيُونُهُمْ مِنَ ٱلشَّحْمِ. جَاوَزُوا تَصَوُّرَاتِ ٱلْقَلْبِ.

Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.

٨ 8 يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ وَيَتَكَلَّمُونَ بِٱلشَّرِّ ظُلْمًا. مِنَ ٱلْعَلَاءِ يَتَكَلَّمُونَ.

They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.

٩ 9 جَعَلُوا أَفْوَاهَهُمْ فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ، وَأَلْسِنَتُهُمْ تَتَمَشَّى فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ.

They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

١٠ 10 لِذَلِكَ يَرْجِعُ شَعْبُهُ إِلَى هُنَا، وَكَمِيَاهٍ مُرْوِيَةٍ يُمْتَصُّونَ مِنْهُمْ.

Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

١١ 11 وَقَالُوا: «كَيْفَ يَعْلَمُ ٱللهُ؟ وَهَلْ عِنْدَ ٱلْعَلِيِّ مَعْرِفَةٌ؟».

And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?

١٢ 12 هُوَذَا هَؤُلَاءِ هُمُ ٱلْأَشْرَارُ، وَمُسْتَرِيحِينَ إِلَى ٱلدَّهْرِ يُكْثِرُونَ ثَرْوَةً.

Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

١٣ 13 حَقًّا قَدْ زَكَّيْتُ قَلْبِي بَاطِلًا وَغَسَلْتُ بِٱلنَّقَاوَةِ يَدَيَّ.

Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

١٤ 14 وَكُنْتُ مُصَابًا ٱلْيَوْمَ كُلَّهُ، وَتَأَدَّبْتُ كُلَّ صَبَاحٍ.

For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

١٥ 15 لَوْ قُلْتُ أُحَدِّثُ هَكَذَا، لَغَدَرْتُ بِجِيلِ بَنِيكَ.

If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

١٦ 16 فَلَمَّا قَصَدْتُ مَعْرِفَةَ هَذَا، إِذَا هُوَ تَعَبٌ فِي عَيْنَيَّ.

Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

١٧ 17 حَتَّى دَخَلْتُ مَقَادِسَ ٱللهِ، وَٱنْتَبَهْتُ إِلَى آخِرَتِهِمْ.

Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.

١٨ 18 حَقًّا فِي مَزَالِقَ جَعَلْتَهُمْ. أَسْقَطْتَهُمْ إِلَى ٱلْبَوَارِ.

Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

١٩ 19 كَيْفَ صَارُوا لِلْخَرَابِ بَغْتَةً! ٱضْمَحَلُّوا، فَنُوا مِنَ ٱلدَّوَاهِي.

How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,

٢٠ 20 كَحُلْمٍ عِنْدَ ٱلتَّيَقُّظِ يَارَبُّ، عِنْدَ ٱلتَّيَقُّظِ تَحْتَقِرُ خَيَالَهُمْ.

As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

٢١ 21 لِأَنَّهُ تَمَرْمَرَ قَلْبِي، وَٱنْتَخَسْتُ فِي كُلْيَتَيَّ.

Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

٢٢ 22 وَأَنَا بَلِيدٌ وَلَا أَعْرِفُ. صِرْتُ كَبَهِيمٍ عِنْدَكَ.

So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.

٢٣ 23 وَلَكِنِّي دَائِمًا مَعَكَ. أَمْسَكْتَ بِيَدِي ٱلْيُمْنَى.

Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

٢٤ 24 بِرَأْيِكَ تَهْدِينِي، وَبَعْدُ إِلَى مَجْدٍ تَأْخُذُنِي.

Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.

٢٥ 25 مَنْ لِي فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ؟ وَمَعَكَ لَا أُرِيدُ شَيْئًا فِي ٱلْأَرْضِ.

Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee.

٢٦ 26 قَدْ فَنِيَ لَحْمِي وَقَلْبِي. صَخْرَةُ قَلْبِي وَنَصِيبِي ٱللهُ إِلَى ٱلدَّهْرِ.

My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.

٢٧ 27 لِأَنَّهُ هُوَذَا ٱلْبُعَدَاءُ عَنْكَ يَبِيدُونَ. تُهْلِكُ كُلَّ مَنْ يَزْنِي عَنْكَ.

For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.

٢٨ 28 أَمَّا أَنَا فَٱلِٱقْتِرَابُ إِلَى ٱللهِ حَسَنٌ لِي. جَعَلْتُ بِٱلسَّيِّدِ ٱلرَّبِّ مَلْجَإِي، لِأُخْبِرَ بِكُلِّ صَنَائِعِكَ.

As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.