Psalm 73
English translation got from website: https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo
- A song of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to the pure of heart.
- But as for me, my feet had almost turned away, in an instant my steps would have been swept away.
- For I envied the perverse; I would see the tranquility of the wicked.
- For there are no fetters to their death, and their health is sound.
- In the toil of mortal man they are not, neither are they plagued with mankind.
- Therefore, they wear pride as a necklace; the robbery that they commit envelops their hips.
- Because of their fat, their eyes bulge; they surpassed the imaginings of their heart.
- They consume, and speak wickedly about oppression; they speak about the Most High.
- They have set their mouth against Heaven, and their tongue walks through the earth.
- Therefore, His people will return here, and the waters of the full [stream] are drain water to them.
- And they say, « How does God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High? »
- Behold these are wicked, yet they are tranquil in the world and have increased wealth.
- But for nought I cleansed my heart and bathed my hands with cleanliness.
- And I was plagued all the days, and my chastisement was every morning.
- If I said, « I shall tell it as it is, » behold I have made the generation of Your children into traitors.
- And when I ponder to know this, it is iniquity in my eyes.
- Until I came to the sanctuaries of God, and I understood their end.
- Only in slippery places do You set them; You cast them down to ruin.
- How they became desolate instantly! They were completely consumed by terrors.
- As a dream without awakening; O Lord, in the city You will despise their form.
- For my heart was in ferment, and my mind was on edge.
- But I was brutish and I did not know; I was [as] a beast with You.
- Yet I was constantly with You; You grasped my right hand.
- With Your counsel You led me, and after[wards], You took me [for] glory.
- For whom do I have in heaven, and I desired no one with You on earth.
- My flesh and my heart yearn; God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.
- For behold, those who have distanced themselves from You will perish; You have cut off anyone who strays from You.
- But as for me-God’s nearness is my good; I have placed my refuge in the Lord God, to tell all Your mission.