{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/73","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:21:04.803Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":73,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":72,"nextChapter":74,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":28},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And their might is firm."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Only — a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And I am continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And I — nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!"}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 73 (YLT)","markdown":"[Psalms 73](https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/73)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/psalms/73 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}