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73:1  A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel [is] God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,
73:2  As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
73:3  The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
73:4  And their might [is] firm.
73:5  In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
73:6  Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
73:7  Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
73:8  They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
73:9  They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
73:10  Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
73:11  And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
73:12  Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
73:13  Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
73:14  And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.
73:15  If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
73:16  And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
73:17  Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
73:18  Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
73:19  How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
73:20  As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
73:21  For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
73:22  And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
73:23  And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.
73:24  With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
73:25  Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.
73:26  Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.
73:27  For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.
73:28  And I -- nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!