Taking Comfort in the 73rd Psalm

Psalm 73 (AKJV)

A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ Truly God is good to Israel,

even to such as are of a clean heart.

² But as for me, my feet were almost gone;

my steps had well nigh slipped.

³ For I was envious at the foolish,

when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴ For there are no bands in their death:

but their strength is firm.

⁵ They are not in trouble as other men;

neither are they plagued like other men.

⁶ Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;

violence covereth them as a garment.

⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness:

they have more than heart could wish.

⁸ They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:

they speak loftily.

⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens,

and their tongue walketh through the earth.

¹⁰ Therefore his people return hither:

and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

¹¹ And they say, How doth God know?

and is there knowledge in the most High?

¹² Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world;

they increase in riches.

¹³ Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain,

and washed my hands in innocency.

¹⁴ For all the day long have I been plagued,

and chastened every morning.

¹⁵ If I say, I will speak thus;

behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

¹⁶ When I thought to know this,

it was too painful for me;

¹⁷ until I went into the sanctuary of God;

then understood I their end.

¹⁸ Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:

thou castedst them down into destruction.

¹⁹ How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment!

they are utterly consumed with terrors.

²⁰ As a dream when one awaketh;

so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

²¹ Thus my heart was grieved,

and I was pricked in my reins.

²² So foolish was I, and ignorant:

I was as a beast before thee.

²³ Nevertheless I am continually with thee:

thou hast holden me by my right hand.

²⁴ Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,

and afterward receive me to glory.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but thee?

and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart faileth:

but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

²⁷ For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:

thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

²⁸ But it is good for me to draw near to God:

I have put my trust in the Lord God,

that I may declare all thy works.

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