Psalms 72
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Modern Hebrew Bible
1A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
1לשלמה אלהים משפטיך למלך תן וצדקתך לבן מלך׃
2But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
2ידין עמך בצדק וענייך במשפט׃
3Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
3ישאו הרים שלום לעם וגבעות בצדקה׃
4For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
4ישפט עניי עם יושיע לבני אביון וידכא עושק׃
5They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
5ייראוך עם שמש ולפני ירח דור דורים׃
6Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
6ירד כמטר על גז כרביבים זרזיף ארץ׃
7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
7יפרח בימיו צדיק ורב שלום עד בלי ירח׃
8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
8וירד מים עד ים ומנהר עד אפסי ארץ׃
9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
9לפניו יכרעו ציים ואיביו עפר ילחכו׃
10Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
10מלכי תרשיש ואיים מנחה ישיבו מלכי שבא וסבא אשכר יקריבו׃
11And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
11וישתחוו לו כל מלכים כל גוים יעבדוהו׃
12Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
12כי יציל אביון משוע ועני ואין עזר לו׃
13And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
13יחס על דל ואביון ונפשות אביונים יושיע׃
14And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
14מתוך ומחמס יגאל נפשם וייקר דמם בעיניו׃
15If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
15ויחי ויתן לו מזהב שבא ויתפלל בעדו תמיד כל היום יברכנהו׃
16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
16יהי פסת בר בארץ בראש הרים ירעש כלבנון פריו ויציצו מעיר כעשב הארץ׃
17Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
17יהי שמו לעולם לפני שמש ינין שמו ויתברכו בו כל גוים יאשרוהו׃
18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
18ברוך יהוה אלהים אלהי ישראל עשה נפלאות לבדו׃
19How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
19וברוך שם כבודו לעולם וימלא כבודו את כל הארץ אמן ואמן׃
20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
20כלו תפלות דוד בן ישי׃
21For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
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22And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
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23I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
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24Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
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25For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
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26For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
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27For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
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28But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
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