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| [1]A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart. |
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| [2]But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. |
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| [3]For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. |
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| [4]For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound. |
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| [5]In the trouble of man they are not; neither are they plagued like men. |
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| [6]Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment. |
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| [7]Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart. |
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| [8]They scoff, and in wickedness u oppression; they speak as if there were none on high. |
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| [9]They have set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. |
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| [10]Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them. |
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| [11]And they say: 'How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' |
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| [12]Behold, such are the wicked; and they that are always at ease increase riches. |
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| [13]Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency; |
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| [14]For all the day have I been plagued, and my chastisement came every morning. |
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| [15]If I had said: 'I will speak thus', behold, I had been faithless to the generation of Thy children. |
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| [16]And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes; |
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| [17]Until I entered into the sanctuary of God, and considered their end. |
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| [18]Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin. |
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| [19]How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wh consumed by terrors. |
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| [20]As a dream when one awaketh, so, O Lord, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance. |
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| [21]For my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins. |
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| [22]But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee. |
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| [23]Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou holdest my right hand. |
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| [24]Thou wilt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me with glory. |
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| [25]Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And beside Thee I desire none upon earth. |
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| [26]My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever. |
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| [27]For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee. |
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| [28]But as for me, the nearness of God is my good; I have made the Lord 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works. |
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