Salmos 73

1De Asaf. ¡Cuán bueno es Dios para Israel, el Señor para los que son rectos de corazón!

2Pero, mis pies casi resbalaron, cerca estuve de dar un mal paso;

3porque envidiaba a los jactanciosos al observar la prosperidad de los pecadores.

4No hay para ellos tribulaciones; su cuerpo está sano y robusto.

5No conocen las inquietudes de los mortales, ni son golpeados como los demás hombres.

6Por eso la soberbia los envuelve como un collar; y la violencia los cubre como un manto.

7De su craso corazón desborda su iniquidad; desfogan los caprichos de su ánimo.

8Zahieren y hablan con malignidad, y altivamente amenazan con su opresión.

9Su boca se abre contra el cielo, y su lengua se pasea por toda la tierra.

10Así el pueblo se vuelve hacia ellos y encuentra sus días plenos;

11y dice: “¿Acaso lo sabe Dios? ¿Tiene conocimiento el Altísimo?

12Ved cómo tales impíos están siempre tranquilos y aumentan su poder.

13Luego, en vano he guardado puro mi corazón, y lavado mis manos en la inocencia,

14pues padezco flagelos todo el tiempo y soy atormentado cada día.”

15Si yo dijere: “Hablaré como ellos”, renegaría del linaje de tus hijos.

16Me puse, pues, a reflexionar para comprender esto; pero me pareció demasiado difícil para mí.

17Hasta que penetré en los santos arcanos de Dios, y consideré la suerte final de aquellos hombres.

18En verdad Tú los pones en un camino resbaladizo y los dejas precipitarse en la ruina.

19¡Cómo se deslizaron de golpe! Son arrebatados, consumidos por el terror,

20son como quien despierta de un sueño; así Tú, Señor, al despertar despreciarás su ficción.

21Cuando, pues, exasperaba mi mente y se torturaban mis entrañas,

22era yo un estúpido que no entendía; fui delante de Ti como un jumento.

23Mas yo estaré contigo siempre, Tú me has tomado de la mano derecha.

24Por tu consejo me conducirás, y al fin me recibirás en la gloria.

25¿Quién hay para mí en el cielo sino Tú? Y si contigo estoy ¿qué podrá deleitarme en la tierra?

26La carne y el corazón mío desfallecen, la roca de mi corazón es Dios, herencia mía para siempre.

27Pues he aquí que cuantos de Ti se apartan perecerán; Tú destruyes a todos los que se prostituyen, alejándose de Ti.

28Mas para mí la dicha consiste en estar unido a Dios. He puesto en el Señor Dios mi refugio para proclamar todas tus obras en las puertas de la hija de Sión.

1Psalmus Asaph. [Quam bonus Israël Deus, his qui recto sunt corde !

2Mei autem pene moti sunt pedes, pene effusi sunt gressus mei:

3quia zelavi super iniquos, pacem peccatorum videns.

4Quia non est respectus morti eorum, et firmamentum in plaga eorum.

5In labore hominum non sunt, et cum hominibus non flagellabuntur.

6Ideo tenuit eos superbia; operti sunt iniquitate et impietate sua.

7Prodiit quasi ex adipe iniquitas eorum; transierunt in affectum cordis.

8Cogitaverunt et locuti sunt nequitiam; iniquitatem in excelso locuti sunt.

9Posuerunt in cælum os suum, et lingua eorum transivit in terra.

10Ideo convertetur populus meus hic, et dies pleni invenientur in eis.

11Et dixerunt: Quomodo scit Deus, et si est scientia in excelso?

12Ecce ipsi peccatores, et abundantes in sæculo obtinuerunt divitias.

13Et dixi: Ergo sine causa justificavi cor meum, et lavi inter innocentes manus meas,

14et fui flagellatus tota die, et castigatio mea in matutinis.

15Si dicebam: Narrabo sic; ecce nationem filiorum tuorum reprobavi.

16Existimabam ut cognoscerem hoc; labor est ante me:

17donec intrem in sanctuarium Dei, et intelligam in novissimis eorum.

18Verumtamen propter dolos posuisti eis; dejecisti eos dum allevarentur.

19Quomodo facti sunt in desolationem? subito defecerunt: perierunt propter iniquitatem suam.

20Velut somnium surgentium, Domine, in civitate tua imaginem ipsorum ad nihilum rediges.

21Quia inflammatum est cor meum, et renes mei commutati sunt;

22et ego ad nihilum redactus sum, et nescivi:

23ut jumentum factus sum apud te, et ego semper tecum.

24Tenuisti manum dexteram meam, et in voluntate tua deduxisti me, et cum gloria suscepisti me.

25Quid enim mihi est in cælo? et a te quid volui super terram?

26Defecit caro mea et cor meum; Deus cordis mei, et pars mea, Deus in æternum.

27Quia ecce qui elongant se a te peribunt; perdidisti omnes qui fornicantur abs te.

28Mihi autem adhærere Deo bonum est; ponere in Domino Deo spem meam: ut annuntiem omnes prædicationes tuas in portis filiæ Sion.]

1A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

2But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.

3Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

4For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

5They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

6Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

10Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

11And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

12Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

13And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

14And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

15If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

17Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

19How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

21For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:

22And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

23I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.

24Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.

25For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?

26For 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.

27For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.

28But 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.