Ps-73
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v1
Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
v2
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.
v3
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
v4
For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
v5
They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
v6
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
v7
Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
v8
They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
v9
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
v10
Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.
v11
And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?“
v12
Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
v13
All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
v14
For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
v15
If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
v16
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
v17
until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
v18
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
v19
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
v20
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
v21
When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
v22
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
v23
Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
v24
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
v25
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
v26
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
v27
For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
v28
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.