Psalms:72

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drb @Psalms:72:1 @A psalm for Asaph . How good is God to Israel , to them that are of a right heart ! drb @Psalms:72:2 @But my feet were almost moved ; my steps had well nigh slipped . drb @Psalms:72:3 @Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked , seeing the prosperity of sinners . drb @Psalms:72:4 @For there is no regard to their death , nor is there strength in their stripes . drb @Psalms:72:5 @They are not in the labour of men : neither shall they be scourged like other men . B Therefore pride hath held them fast : they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness . drb @Psalms:72:6 @Their iniquity hath come forth , as it were from fatness : they have passed into the affection of the heart . drb @Psalms:72:7 @They have thought and spoken wickedness : they have spoken iniquity on high . drb @Psalms:72:8 @They have set their mouth against heaven : and their tongue hath passed through the earth . drb @Psalms:72:9 @Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them . drb @Psalms:72:10 @And they said : How doth God know ? and is there knowledge in the most High ? drb @Psalms:72:11 @Behold these are sinners ; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches . drb @Psalms:72:12 @And I said : Then have I in vain justified my heart , and washed my hands among the innocent . drb @Psalms:72:13 @And I have been scourged all the day ; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings . drb @Psalms:72:14 @If I said : I will speak thus ; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children . drb @Psalms:72:15 @I studied that I might know this thing , it is a labour in my sight : drb @Psalms:72:16 @Until I go into the sanctuary of God , and understand concerning their last ends . drb @Psalms:72:17 @But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them : when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down . drb @Psalms:72:18 @How are they brought to desolation ? they have suddenly ceased to be : they have perished by reason of their iniquity . drb @Psalms:72:19 @As the dream of them that awake , O Lord ; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing . drb @Psalms:72:20 @For my heart hath been inflamed , and my reins have been changed : drb @Psalms:72:21 @and I am brought to nothing , and I knew not . drb @Psalms:72:22 @I am become as a beast before thee : and I am always with thee . drb @Psalms:72:23 @Thou hast held me by my right hand ; and by thy will thou hast conducted me , and with thy glory thou hast received me . drb @Psalms:72:24 @For what have I in heaven ? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth ? drb @Psalms:72:25 @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 . drb @Psalms:72:26 @For behold they that go far from thee shall perish : thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee . drb @Psalms:72:27 @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 .

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