Thomson(i)
1 A Psalm by Asaph. How good is God to Israel! To such as are upright in heart!
2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone: my steps had well nigh slipped;
3 for I envied the unrighteous; when I saw the prosperity of sinners.
4 For there is no lifting up of eyes in their death: and in their affliction they have support.
5 They are not in trouble like other men; nor with other men to be scourged.
6 Therefore haughtiness hath got a mastery over them; they have clothed themselves with their iniquity and impiety.
7 Their iniquity springeth up as it were out of fatness; they passed on to the purpose of their heart.
8 They thought and spoke wickedly; they spoke injustice with a lofty air.
9 They set their mouth against heaven; and their tongue passed on over the earth.
10 Shall my people therefore turn to this; and will full days be found by them?
11 They indeed said, How doth God know? and, Is there any knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold these who are sinful men; are always prosperous and have gotten wealth.
13 Nay, I myself said, Have I then in vain kept my heart just; and washed my hands in innocence.
14 All the day long I have been scourged; and the accusation against me is renewed every morning.
15 Had I said, I will make such a declaration openly: I should have been treacherous to the generation of thy children.
16 I therefore supposed, the trouble of knowing this is before me.
17 When I go to the sanctuary of God; I may understand the final issue.
18 It is but for their frauds thou hast dealt thus with them. Thou hast overthrown them by their exaltation.!
19 how they were for destruction! They are gone in a moment! They perished for their iniquity!
20 As a dream of one awaked out of sleep. Thou, Lord, in thy city wilt spurn their ghost;
21 therefore my heart was cheered and my reins were changed.
22 I indeed was despicable for my want of knowledge; I was brutish as a beast before thee.
23 As for me I shall be with thee continually: thou hast held me by my right hand:
24 with thy counsel thou hast guided me, and taken me to thyself with glory.
25 For what is there in heaven for me; or what on earth have I desired, besides thee?
26 Hath my heart and my flesh failed? God is the strength of my heart; God is my portion forever.
27 Seeing they who withdrew themselves from thee, shall perish; thou hast cut off every one who goeth a whoring from thee:
28 It is therefore good for me to cleave to God; to place my hope upon the Lord: that I may publish all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.