Psalms 73




acv@Psalms:73:1 @ Surely God is good to Israel, to such as are pure in heart.

acv@Psalms:73:2 @ But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had well nigh slipped.

acv@Psalms:73:3 @ For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

acv@Psalms:73:4 @ For there are no pangs in their death, but their strength is firm.

acv@Psalms:73:5 @ They are not in trouble as [other] men, nor are they plagued like [other] men.

acv@Psalms:73:6 @ Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.

acv@Psalms:73:7 @ Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.

acv@Psalms:73:8 @ They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression. They speak loftily.

acv@Psalms:73:9 @ They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

acv@Psalms:73:10 @ Therefore his people return here, and waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.

acv@Psalms:73:11 @ And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

acv@Psalms:73:12 @ Behold, these are the wicked, and those who always prosper. They have possessed wealth.

acv@Psalms:73:13 @ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

acv@Psalms:73:14 @ for all the day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

acv@Psalms:73:15 @ If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of thy sons.

acv@Psalms:73:16 @ When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me,

acv@Psalms:73:17 @ until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.

acv@Psalms:73:18 @ Surely thou set them in slippery places. Thou cast them down to destruction.

acv@Psalms:73:19 @ How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

acv@Psalms:73:20 @ As a dream from awakening, O LORD, when thou waken, thou will despise their form.

acv@Psalms:73:21 @ For my soul was grieved, and I was pricked in my heart.

acv@Psalms:73:22 @ So I was brutish, and ignorant. I was a beast before thee.

acv@Psalms:73:23 @ Nevertheless I am continually with thee. Thou have held my right hand.

acv@Psalms:73:24 @ Thou will guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

acv@Psalms:73:25 @ Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

acv@Psalms:73:26 @ My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

acv@Psalms:73:27 @ For, lo, those who are far from thee shall perish. Thou have destroyed all those who go a whoring from thee.

acv@Psalms:73:28 @ But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made lord LORD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.


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