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Psalms 73
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1(74) [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Therefore have you rejected [us], O God, for ever? [therefore] is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture?
1A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived.
2But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
3Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places.
3For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,
4For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.
5ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;
5They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
6they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
6Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
7They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name.
7Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
8They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
8They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
9We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.
9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever?
10Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
11Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever?
11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
13You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.
13Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
14You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.
14For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
15You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up mighty rivers.
15If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16The day is yours, and the night is yours; you have prepared the sun and the moon.
16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
17You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring.
17until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
18Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name.
18Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
19Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor.
19How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
20Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
21let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name.
21For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
22Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.
22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
23Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you.
23Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.