bes - 73

bes@Psalms:73:1 @ - How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart!

bes@Psalms:73:2 @ But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped.

bes@Psalms:73:3 @ For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

bes@Psalms:73:4 @ For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction.

bes@Psalms:73:5 @ They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men.

bes@Psalms:73:6 @ Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

bes@Psalms:73:7 @ Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention.

bes@Psalms:73:8 @ They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

bes@Psalms:73:9 @ They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

bes@Psalms:73:10 @ Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found (note:)Gr. in(:note) with them.

bes@Psalms:73:11 @ And they said, How does God know? and (note:)Gr. if there is(:note) is there knowledge in the Most High?

bes@Psalms:73:12 @ Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.

bes@Psalms:73:13 @ And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.

bes@Psalms:73:14 @ For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning.

bes@Psalms:73:15 @ If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

bes@Psalms:73:16 @ And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,

bes@Psalms:73:17 @ until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end.

bes@Psalms:73:18 @ Surely thou hast appointed judgements to them because of their crafty dealings: thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up.

bes@Psalms:73:19 @ How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.

bes@Psalms:73:20 @ As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

bes@Psalms:73:21 @ For my heart has rejoiced, and my reins have been (note:)Gr. changed(:note) gladdened.

bes@Psalms:73:22 @ But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before thee.

bes@Psalms:73:23 @ Yet I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand.

bes@Psalms:73:24 @ Thou hast guided me by thy counsel, and thou hast taken me to thyself with glory.

bes@Psalms:73:25 @ For what have I in heaven but thee? and what have I desired upon the earth beside thee?

bes@Psalms:73:26 @ My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.

bes@Psalms:73:27 @ For, behold, they that remove themselves far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed every one that goes a whoring from thee.

bes@Psalms:73:28 @ But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Psalms 73