chapter_Psalm_73
Psalm 73:1: A Psalm of Asaph. Only &#8212; good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I &#8212; as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside, Psalm 73:2: As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful, Psalm 73:3: The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, Psalm 73:4: And their might is firm. Psalm 73:5: In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. Psalm 73:6: Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. Psalm 73:7: Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; Psalm 73:8: They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. Psalm 73:9: They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. Psalm 73:10: Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. Psalm 73:11: And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' Psalm 73:12: Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. Psalm 73:13: Only &#8212; a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands, Psalm 73:14: And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning. Psalm 73:15: If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived. Psalm 73:16: And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes, Psalm 73:17: Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end. Psalm 73:18: Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. Psalm 73:19: How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended &#8212; consumed from terrors. Psalm 73:20: As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest. Psalm 73:21: For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves, Psalm 73:22: And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee. Psalm 73:23: And I am continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand. Psalm 73:24: With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me. Psalm 73:25: Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth. Psalm 73:26: Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age. Psalm 73:27: For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee. Psalm 73:28: And I &#8212; nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!
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