PSALM 73

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

  – Psalm 73:26

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Chapter 73 Scripture

• 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.