¹مزمور لآساف‎. ‎انما صالح الله لاسرائيل لانقياء القلب‎.

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,

²‎اما انا فكادت تزل قدماي. لولا قليل لزلقت خطواتي‎.

²As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

³‎لاني غرت من المتكبرين اذ رايت سلامة الاشرار‎.

³The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

⁴‎لانه ليست في موتهم شدائد وجسمهم سمين‎.

⁴And their might [is] firm.

⁵‎ليسوا في تعب الناس ومع البشر لا يصابون‎.

⁵In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

⁶‎لذلك تقلدوا الكبرياء. لبسوا كثوب ظلمهم‎.

⁶Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

⁷‎جحظت عيونهم من الشحم. جاوزوا تصورات القلب‎.

⁷Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

⁸‎يستهزئون ويتكلمون بالشر ظلما من العلاء يتكلمون‎.

⁸They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

⁹‎جعلوا افواههم في السماء وألسنتهم تتمشى في الارض‎.

⁹They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

¹⁰‎لذلك يرجع شعبه الى هنا وكمياه مروية يمتصون منهم‎.

¹⁰Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

¹¹‎وقالوا كيف يعلم الله وهل عند العلي معرفة‎.

¹¹And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?`

¹²‎هوذا هؤلاء هم الاشرار ومستريحين الى الدهر يكثرون ثروة

¹²Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

¹³حقا قد زكّيت قلبي باطلا وغسلت بالنقاوة يدي‎.

¹³Only — a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

¹⁴‎وكنت مصابا اليوم كله وتأدبت كل صباح‎.

¹⁴And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.

¹⁵‎لو قلت احدّث هكذا لغدرت بجيل بنيك‎.

¹⁵If I have said, `I recount thus,` Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

¹⁶‎فلما قصدت معرفة هذا اذ هو تعب في عينيّ‎.

¹⁶And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,

¹⁷‎حتى دخلت مقادس الله وانتبهت الى آخرتهم‎.

¹⁷Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

¹⁸‎حقا في مزالق جعلتهم. اسقطتهم الى البوار‎.

¹⁸Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

¹⁹‎كيف صاروا للخراب بغتة. اضمحلوا فنوا من الدواهي‏‎.

¹⁹How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.

²⁰‎كحلم عند التيّقظ يا رب عند التيقظ تحتقر خيالهم

²⁰As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

²¹لانه تمرمر قلبي وانتخست في كليتيّ‎.

²¹For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

²²‎وانا بليد ولا اعرف. صرت كبهيم عندك‎.

²²And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

²³‎ولكني دائما معك. امسكت بيدي اليمنى‎.

²³And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.

²⁴‎برأيك تهديني وبعد الى مجد تأخذني‎.

²⁴With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

²⁵‎من لي في السماء. ومعك لا اريد شيئا في الارض‎.

²⁵Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

²⁶‎قد فني لحمي وقلبي. صخرة قلبي ونصيبي الله الى الدهر‎.

²⁶Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.

²⁷‎لانه هوذا البعداء عنك يبيدون. تهلك كل من يزني عنك‎.

²⁷For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

²⁸‎اما انا فالاقتراب الى الله حسن لي. جعلت بالسيد الرب ملجإي لاخبر بكل صنائعك

²⁸And I — nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!