Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 <<A Psalm by Asaf.>> Surely God is good to Yisra'el, To those who are pure in heart.
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A 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,
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
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As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
3 For I was envious of the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
4 For there are no struggles in their death, But their strength is firm.
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And their might [is] firm.
5 They are free from burdens of men, Neither are they plagued like other men.
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In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
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Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
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Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
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They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the eretz.
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They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
10 Therefore their people return to them, And they drink up waters of abundance.
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Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
11 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in Ha`Elyon?"
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And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
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Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,
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Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
14 For all day long have I been plagued, And punished every morning.
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And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.
15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
16 When I tried to understand this, It was too painful for me;
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And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
17 Until I entered God's sanctuary, And considered their latter end.
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Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
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Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
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How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
20 As a dream when one wakes up, So, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
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As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
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For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
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And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
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And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.
24 You will guide me with your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
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With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
25 Who do I have in heaven? There is no one on eretz who I desire besides you.
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Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.
26 My flesh and my heart fails, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.
27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
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For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.
28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, That I may tell of all your works.
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And I -- nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!
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