Psalms 73
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?
1BOOK III A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart.
2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast possessed from the beginning. The sceptre of thy inheritance which thou hast redeemed: mount Sion in which thou hast dwelt.
2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
3For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,
4For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound.
5And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,
5In the trouble of man they are not; neither are they plagued like men.
6They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.
6Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.
7They have set fire to thy sanctuary: they have defiled the dwelling place of thy name on the earth.
7Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.
8They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.
8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression; they speak as if there were none on high.
9Our signs we have not seen, there is now no prophet: and he will know us no more.
9They have set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach: is the adversary to provoke thy name for ever?
10Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them.
11Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever?
11And they say: 'How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
12But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
12Behold, such are the wicked; and they that are always at ease increase riches.
13Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters.
13Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;
14Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians.
14For all the day have I been plagued, and my chastisement came every morning.
15Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers.
15If I had said: 'I will speak thus', behold, I had been faithless to the generation of Thy children.
16Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun.
16And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes;
17Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee.
17Until I entered into the sanctuary of God, and considered their end.
18Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name.
18Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin.
19Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor.
19How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors.
20Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity.
20As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance.
21Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name.
21For my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins.
22Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day.
22But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee.
23Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually.
23Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou holdest my right hand.
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24Thou wilt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me with glory.
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25Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And beside Thee I desire none upon earth.
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26My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
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27For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee.
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28But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works.
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