BOOK III Surely God Is Good to Israel 3 DRA Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. BSB BSB: For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 DRA For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes. BSB BSB: They have no struggle in their death; their bodies are well-fed.
5 DRA They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. BSB BSB: They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.
6 DRA Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness. BSB BSB: Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
7 DRA Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart. BSB BSB: From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
8 DRA They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high. BSB BSB: They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
9 DRA They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth. BSB BSB: They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
10 DRA Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them. BSB BSB: So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
11 DRA And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? BSB BSB: The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
12 DRA Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches. BSB BSB: Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree as they increase their wealth.
13 DRA And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent. BSB BSB: Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands.
14 DRA And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings. BSB BSB: For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning.
15 DRA If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children. BSB BSB: If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
17 DRA Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends. BSB BSB: until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.
18 DRA But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. BSB BSB: Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
19 DRA How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity. BSB BSB: How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
20 DRA As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing. BSB BSB: Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.
21 DRA For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not. BSB BSB: When my heart was grieved and I was pierced within,
22 DRA I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee. BSB BSB: I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
23 DRA Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me. BSB BSB: Yet I am always with You; You hold my right hand.
25 DRA For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth? BSB BSB: Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
26 DRA For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever. BSB BSB: My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27 DRA For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee. BSB BSB: Those far from You will surely perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You.
28 DRA But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion. BSB BSB: But as for me, it is good to draw near to God. I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may proclaim all Your works.
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