Psalms 73 : 1 (ESV)
A PSALM OF ASAPH.Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psalms 73 : 2 (ESV)
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.
Psalms 73 : 3 (ESV)
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalms 73 : 4 (ESV)
For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
Psalms 73 : 5 (ESV)
They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
Psalms 73 : 6 (ESV)
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
Psalms 73 : 7 (ESV)
Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
Psalms 73 : 8 (ESV)
They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
Psalms 73 : 9 (ESV)
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
Psalms 73 : 10 (ESV)
Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.
Psalms 73 : 11 (ESV)
And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
Psalms 73 : 12 (ESV)
Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
Psalms 73 : 13 (ESV)
All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
Psalms 73 : 14 (ESV)
For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
Psalms 73 : 15 (ESV)
If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Psalms 73 : 16 (ESV)
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
Psalms 73 : 17 (ESV)
until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
Psalms 73 : 18 (ESV)
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
Psalms 73 : 19 (ESV)
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Psalms 73 : 20 (ESV)
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
Psalms 73 : 21 (ESV)
When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
Psalms 73 : 22 (ESV)
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
Psalms 73 : 23 (ESV)
Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
Psalms 73 : 24 (ESV)
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
Psalms 73 : 25 (ESV)
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
Psalms 73 : 26 (ESV)
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalms 73 : 27 (ESV)
For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
Psalms 73 : 28 (ESV)
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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