Psalms 73

¹ Surely Elohim is good to Israel, To those who are pure of heart. ² As for me, my feet had almost turned aside; My movement was nearly made useless. ³ For I was jealous of those who are boasting; I was seeing the well-being of the wicked. ⁴ For there are no hindrances for them; Robust and plump is their physique. ⁵ They are not involved in the toil of a mortal, And they are not touched by ills with humanity. ⁶ Wherefore pride is their necklace; Violence is draping about them like a burnoose. ⁷ Their eye protrudes from fat; Vain fancies pass through their heart. ⁸ They belittle and speak with evil intent; From their height they are plotting extortion. ⁹ They set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue is going about the earth. ¹⁰ Wherefore His people are turning away thither, And waters of intemperance are being wrung out by them. ¹¹ And they say, How can El know? And is there knowledge in the Supreme? ¹² Behold, these are the wicked! Even these at ease eonian, who make their estate huge. ¹³ Surely for nought have I purged my heart And have been washing my palms in innocency. ¹⁴ I am touched by ills the entire day, And my correction begins in the mornings. ¹⁵ If I had said, I will endorse things like this, Behold, I would be treacherous to a generation of Your sons. ¹⁶ When I am attempting to realize this, It is toil in my eyes, ¹⁷ Until I am coming to the Grand Sanctuary of El; Then I am understanding what is in their hereafter. ¹⁸ Surely You shall set them down in slippery places; You will cast them into ruinations. ¹⁹ How they will become a desolation, as in a moment! They will be swept up; they will be finished by decadence! ²⁰ Like a dream when one is waking, O Yahweh, when rousing, You shall lay waste their phantom. ²¹ For my heart was soured, And in my innermost being I was pricked. ²² I was irrational, and I was ignorant; I became like the beasts before You. ²³ Yet I am continually with You; You hold me by my right hand. ²⁴ By Your counsel are You guiding me, And afterward You shall take me into glory. ²⁵ Who do I have in the heavens but You? And besides You, none do I desire on earth. ²⁶ Exhausted is my flesh, and my heart; The Rock of my heart and my Portion is Elohim for the eon. ²⁷ For behold, those who are far from You, they shall perish; You will efface all who prostitute away from You. ²⁸ As for me, it is good for me to be near Elohim; I have set my refuge in my Lord Yahweh, To recount all Your praises In the gateways of the daughter of Zion.