translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: PSA

book: Psalms

reference: Psalms 73:1

text: Surely God is good to Israel, Even to such as are pure in heart.


reference: Psalms 73:2

text: But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.


reference: Psalms 73:3

text: For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.


reference: Psalms 73:4

text: For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.


reference: Psalms 73:5

text: They are not in trouble as other men; Neither are they plagued like other men.


reference: Psalms 73:6

text: Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.


reference: Psalms 73:7

text: Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.


reference: Psalms 73:8

text: They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.


reference: Psalms 73:9

text: They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.


reference: Psalms 73:10

text: Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a full cup are drained by them.


reference: Psalms 73:11

text: And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?


reference: Psalms 73:12

text: Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.


reference: Psalms 73:13

text: Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;


reference: Psalms 73:14

text: For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.


reference: Psalms 73:15

text: If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.


reference: Psalms 73:16

text: When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;


reference: Psalms 73:17

text: Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.


reference: Psalms 73:18

text: Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.


reference: Psalms 73:19

text: How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.


reference: Psalms 73:20

text: As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.


reference: Psalms 73:21

text: For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:


reference: Psalms 73:22

text: So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.


reference: Psalms 73:23

text: Nevertheless I am continually with thee: Thou hast holden my right hand.


reference: Psalms 73:24

text: Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.


reference: Psalms 73:25

text: Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.


reference: Psalms 73:26

text: My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.


reference: Psalms 73:27

text: For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, departing from thee.


reference: Psalms 73:28

text: But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works.