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73:1  A song of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart.
73:2  But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled. My steps had nearly slipped,
73:3  because I envied the boastful when I saw the well-being of the wicked.
73:4  For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies are healthy.
73:5  They do not have ordinary trouble, and they are not plagued as other people.
73:6  Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.
73:7  Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow their heart.
73:8  They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak as though from on high.
73:9  They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.
73:10  Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them.
73:11  And they say, “How does God know?” and, “Does the Most High have knowledge?”
73:12  See, these are the wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
73:13  Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
73:14  And I have been plagued all day and rebuked every morning.
73:15  If I had said, “I will speak thus,” behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children’s generation.
73:16  When I thought about how to understand this, it was troubling in my eyes
73:17  until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their fate.
73:18  Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
73:19  How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.
73:20  Like a dream upon awakening, when you wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
73:21  When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,
73:22  then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was like the beasts.
73:23  But I am continually with you; you have hold of my right hand.
73:24  You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me into honor.
73:25  Whom do I have in the heavens except you? And with you I have no other desire on earth.
73:26  My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever.
73:27  For indeed, those distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.
73:28  But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works.