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Surely God [is] good to Israel, to the clean of heart. And I—as a little thing, "" My feet have been turned aside,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As nothing, my steps have slipped, "" For I have been envious of the boastful,<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I see the peace of the wicked, "" That there are no bands at their death,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And their might [is] firm.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are not in the misery of mortals, "" And they are not plagued with common men.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore pride has encircled them, "" Violence covers them as a dress.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their eye has come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They do corruptly, "" And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, "" They speak from on high.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They have set their mouth in the heavens, "" And their tongue walks in the earth.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore His people return here, "" And waters of fullness are wrung out to them.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they have said, “How has God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, "" They have increased strength.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, "" And I wash my hands in innocence,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I am plagued all the day, "" And my reproof—every morning.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I have said, “I recount thus,” "" Behold, I have deceived a generation of Your sons.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I think to know this, "" It [is] perverseness in my eyes,<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Until I come into the sanctuaries of God, "" I attend to their latter end.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Surely You set them in slippery places, "" You have caused them to fall to desolations.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How they have become a desolation as in a moment, "" They have been ended—consumed from terrors.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As a dream from awakening, O Lord, "" In awaking, You despise their image.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For my heart shows itself violent, "" And my reins prick themselves,<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I am brutish, and do not know. I have been a beast with You.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I [am] continually with You, "" You have laid hold on my right hand.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You lead me with Your counsel, "" And after, receive me [to] glory.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Whom do I have in the heavens? And none have I desired in earth [besides] You.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>My flesh and my heart have been consumed, "" God [is] the rock of my heart and my portion for all time.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For behold, those far from You perish, "" You have cut off everyone, "" Who is going whoring from You.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-28.htm"><b></b></a></span>And [the] nearness of God to me [is] good, "" I have placed my refuge in Lord YHWH, "" To recount all Your works!<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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