Psalms - Chapter 73 | English Standard Version

  • 1. A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
  • 2. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.
  • 3. For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
  • 4. For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
  • 5. They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
  • 6. Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
  • 7. Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
  • 8. They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
  • 9. They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
  • 10. Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.
  • 11. And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
  • 12. Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
  • 13. All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
  • 14. For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
  • 15. If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
  • 16. But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
  • 17. until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
  • 18. Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
  • 19. How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
  • 20. Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
  • 21. When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
  • 22. I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
  • 23. Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
  • 24. You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
  • 25. Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
  • 26. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • 27. For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
  • 28. But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
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