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Psalme 73 - King James 1611 bible

Psalme 73

¹[A Psalme of Asaph.] Truely God is good to Israel, euen to such as are of a cleane heart.

²But as for mee, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well-nigh slipt.

³For I was enuious at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firme.

⁵They are not in trouble as other men: neither are they plagued like other men.

⁶Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chaine: violence couereth them as a garment.

⁷Their eies stand out with fatnes: they haue more then heart could wish.

⁸They are corrupt, and speake wickedly concerning oppression: they speake loftily.

⁹They set their mouth against the heauens; and their tongue walketh through the earth.

¹⁰Therefore his people returne hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

¹¹And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

¹²Behold, these are the vngodly: who prosper in the world, they increase in riches.

¹³Uerily I haue cleansed my heart in vaine, and washed my hands in innocencie.

¹⁴For all the day long haue I bene plagued, and chastened euery morning.

¹⁵If I say, I will speake thus: behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

¹⁶When I thought to know this, it was too painfull for me,

¹⁷Untill I went into the Sanctuarie of God; then vnderstood I their end.

¹⁸Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them downe into destruction.

¹⁹How are they brought into desolation as in a moment? they are vtterly consumed with terrours.

²⁰As a dreame when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image.

²¹Thus my heart was greeued, and I was pricked in my reines.

²²So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

²³Neuerthelesse I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

²⁴Thou shalt guide me with thy counsell; and afterward receiue me to glory.

²⁵Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and there is none vpon earth that I desire besides thee.

²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for euer.

²⁷For loe, they that are farre from thee, shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that goe a whoring from thee.

²⁸But it is good for me, to drawe neere to God: I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.