731A 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,+2As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,+3The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,+4And their might is firm.+5In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.+6Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.+7Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;+8They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.+9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.+10Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.+11And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'+12Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.+13Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,+14And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.+15If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.+16And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,+17Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.+18Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.+19How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.+20As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.+21For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,+22And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.+23And I am continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.+24With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.+25Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.+26Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.+27For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.+28And I--nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!+
Young's Literal Translation
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