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73:1  BOOK III A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart.
73:2  But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
73:3  For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
73:4  For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
73:5  They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
73:6  Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.
73:7  Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
73:8  They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: they speak loftily.
73:9  They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
73:10  Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out by them.
73:11  And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?
73:12  Behold, these are the wicked; and, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.
73:13  Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;
73:14  For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
73:15  If I had said, I will speak thus; behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
73:16  When I thought how I might know this, it was too painful for me;
73:17  Until I went into the sanctuary of God, and considered their latter end.
73:18  Surely thou settest them in slippery places: thou castest them down to destruction.
73:19  How are they become a desolation in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
73:20  As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
73:21  For my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins:
73:22  So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.
73:23  Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand.
73:24  Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
73:25  Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
73:26  My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
73:27  For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
73:28  But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all thy works.