⁰A psalm to Asaph.

¹Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart.

²And as for me, my feet had almost turned aside, my steps had all but been poured out.

³For I was jealous of the boasters, seeing the wholeness of the wicked.

⁴For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is plump.

⁵They are not in the toil of man, and along with humankind they are not stricken.

⁶Therefore pride is their necklace; violence wraps them as a garment.

⁷Their eyes go out from fat; the imaginings of the heart pass beyond measure.

⁸They mock and speak with evil, oppression; from a height they speak.

⁹They destined their mouth in the heavens, and their language will go in the land.

¹⁰Therefore his people return here, and waters of fullness are drained by them.

¹¹And they say, How does God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?

¹²Look, these are the wicked, and forever at ease, they increase wealth.

¹³Surely in vain I have kept my heart clean, and I washed my palms in cleanness.

¹⁴And I have been stricken all day, and my rebuke comes with each morning.

¹⁵If I had said, I will recount it so, look, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of your sons.

¹⁶And I reckoned to know this; it was toil in my eyes,

¹⁷until I went into the sanctuaries of God and discerned their end.

¹⁸Surely you set them on slippery places; you make them fall into ruins.

¹⁹How they have become a desolation in a moment! They come to an end, they are finished from terrors.

²⁰Like a dream after waking, O Lord, when you rouse yourself you will despise their image.

²¹For my heart was soured, and my kidneys were pierced.

²²And I was stupid and did not know; I was like beasts with you.

²³And I am continually with you; you take hold of my right hand.

²⁴With your counsel you guide me, and afterward you will take me to weightiness.

²⁵Who is to me in the heavens? And with you I took delight not in the land.

²⁶My flesh and my heart have come to an end; God is the rock of my heart and my portion forever.

²⁷For look, those far from you perish; you put an end to everyone who acts as a harlot away from you.

²⁸But as for me, the nearness of God is good for me; I have set my refuge in the Adonai Yahweh, to recount all your works.