Psalm 73

¹A 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.