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