Psalm 73

1 A Psalm of Asaph. <span class=|reftext|><a href=|#|><b>1</b></a> Surely God [is] good to Israel, to those pure of heart.

2 And [as for] me, at a little stretching out of my feet, my steps had nearly poured out.

3 For I was envious of those boasting [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

4 For there are no pangs until their death, and their body [is] fat.

5 They [are] not in the trouble of mankind, and with men they are not are they plagued.

6 Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence is a covering for them.

7 Their eye has bulged out from fat, the imaginations of their heart overflow.

8 They scoff and speak with malice; from a high place they speak oppression.

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

10 Therefore his people turn here, and waters of fullness are wrung out for them.

11 And they say, “How can God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”

12 Behold, these [are] the wicked, and at ease always, they have increased in wealth.

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

14 For I have been stricken all the day, and chastened in the morning.

15 If I had said, “I will speak like this,” behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your sons.

16 And I thought to know this—it [was] toil in my eyes—

17 until I came to the sanctuary of God, [and] discerned their end.

18 Surely You set them on slick ground; You make them fall to destruction.

19 How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are swept away completely by terrors.

20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, in rousing Yourself, You shall despise their image.

21 For my heart had grown sour, and my kidneys pierce themselves.

22 And I [was] brutish and could not know; I was a beast before You.

23 And I [am] always with You; You hold my right hand.

24 May You lead me with Your counsel, and afterward You will receive me [in] glory!

25 Who [is] unto me in the heavens? And besides You I do not take delight on the earth.

26 My flesh and my heart may be consumed, the rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.

27 For behold, those far from You will perish. You destroy everyone prostituting himself from You!

28 But I—the nearness of God [is] good for me—I have placed my refuge in the Lord YHWH, to recount all Your works.