Psalms 73

1 A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

melody to/for Asaph surely pleasant to/for Israel God to/for pure heart

2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.

and I like/as little (to stretch *QK) foot my like/as nothing (to pour: scatter *QK) step my

3 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

for be jealous in/on/with to be foolish peace: well-being wicked to see: see

4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

for nothing bond to/for death their and fat strength their

5 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

in/on/with trouble human nothing they and with man not to touch

6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

to/for so to ornament them pride to envelope garment violence to/for them

7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

to come out: come from fat eye their to pass figure heart

8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

to mock and to speak: speak in/on/with bad: evil oppression from height to speak: speak

9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

to appoint in/on/with heaven lip their and tongue their to go: walk in/on/with land: country/planet

10 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

to/for so (to return: return *QK) people his here and water full to drain to/for them

11 They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

and to say how? to know God and there knowledge in/on/with Most High

12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

behold these wicked and at ease forever: enduring to increase strength: rich

13 Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

surely vain to clean heart my and to wash: wash in/on/with innocence palm my

14 For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

and to be to touch all [the] day and argument my to/for morning

15 If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

if to say to recount like behold generation son: child your to act treacherously

16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—

and to devise: think [emph?] to/for to know this trouble (he/she/it *Qk) in/on/with eye: appearance my

17 until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

till to come (in): come to(wards) sanctuary God to understand to/for end their

18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

surely in/on/with smoothness to set: make to/for them to fall: fall them to/for desolation

19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

how? to be to/for horror: destroyed like/as moment to cease to finish from terror

20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

like/as dream from to awake Lord in/on/with to rouse image their to despise

21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

for to leaven heart my and kidney my to sharpen

22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

and I stupid and not to know animal to be with you

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

and I continually with you to grasp in/on/with hand right my

24 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

in/on/with counsel your to lead me and after glory to take: recieve me

25 Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.

who? to/for me in/on/with heaven and with you not to delight in in/on/with land: country/planet

26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

to end: expend flesh my and heart my rock heart my and portion my God to/for forever: enduring

27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.

for behold removed your to perish to destroy all to fornicate from you

28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

and I nearness God to/for me pleasant to set: make in/on/with Lord YHWH/God refuge my to/for to recount all work your