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73:1  A psalm of Asaph. God is truly good to Israel. He is good to those who have pure hearts.
73:2  But my feet had almost slipped. I had almost tripped and fallen.
73:3  I saw that proud and sinful people were doing well. And I began to long for what they had.
73:4  They don’t have any troubles. Their bodies are healthy and strong.
73:5  They don’t have the problems most people have. They don’t suffer as other people do.
73:6  Their pride is like a necklace. They put on meanness as if it were their clothes.
73:7  Many sins come out of their hard and stubborn hearts. There is no limit to the evil things they can think up.
73:8  They laugh at others and speak words of hatred. They are proud. They warn others about the harm they can do to them.
73:9  They brag as if they owned heaven itself. They talk as if they controlled the earth.
73:10  So people listen to them. They lap up their words like water.
73:11  They say, “How would God know what we’re doing? Does the Most High God know anything?”
73:12  Here is what sinful people are like. They don’t have a care in the world. They keep getting richer and richer.
73:13  It seems as if I have kept my heart pure for no reason. It didn’t do me any good to wash my hands to show that I wasn’t guilty of doing anything wrong.
73:14  Day after day I’ve been in pain. God has punished me in a new way every morning.
73:15  What if I had talked like that? Then I wouldn’t have been faithful to God’s children.
73:16  I tried to understand it all. But it was more than I could handle.
73:17  It troubled me until I entered God’s temple. Then I understood what will finally happen to bad people.
73:18  God, I’m sure you will make them slip and fall. You will throw them down and destroy them.
73:19  It will happen very suddenly. A terrible death will take them away completely.
73:20  A dream goes away when a person wakes up. Lord, it will be like that when you rise up. It will be as if those people were only a dream.
73:21  At one time my heart was sad and my spirit was bitter.
73:22  I didn’t have any sense. I didn’t know anything. I acted like a wild animal toward you.
73:23  But I am always with you. You hold me by my right hand.
73:24  You give me wise advice to guide me. And when I die, you will take me away into the glory of heaven.
73:25  I don’t have anyone in heaven but you. I don’t want anything on earth besides you.
73:26  My body and my heart may grow weak. God, you give strength to my heart. You are everything I will ever need.
73:27  Those who don’t want anything to do with you will die. You destroy all those who aren’t faithful to you.
73:28  But I am close to you. And that’s good. Lord and King, I have made you my place of safety. I will talk about everything you have done.