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href="../psalms/72.htm" title="Psalm 72">◄</a> Psalm 73 <a href="../psalms/74.htm" title="Psalm 74">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/psalms/73.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God Is My Strength and Portion Forever</p><subheading class="psalm-title">A Psalm of Asaph.</subheading><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Truly God is good to Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">to those who are pure in heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,</span><br /><span class="indent">my steps had nearly slipped.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I was envious of the arrogant</span><br /><span class="indent">when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For they have no pangs until death;</span><br /><span class="indent">their bodies are fat and sleek.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They are not in trouble as others are;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore pride is their necklace;</span><br /><span class="indent">violence covers them as a garment.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Their eyes swell out through fatness;</span><br /><span class="indent">their hearts overflow with follies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They scoff and speak with malice;</span><br /><span class="indent">loftily they threaten oppression.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They set their mouths against the heavens,</span><br /><span class="indent">and their tongue struts through the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Therefore his people turn back to them,</span><br /><span class="indent">and find no fault in them.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And they say, “How can God know?</span><br /><span class="indent">Is there knowledge in the Most High?”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, these are the wicked;</span><br /><span class="indent">always at ease, they increase in riches.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All in vain have I kept my heart clean</span><br /><span class="indent">and washed my hands in innocence.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For all the day long I have been stricken</span><br /><span class="indent">and rebuked every morning.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If I had said, “I will speak thus,”</span><br /><span class="indent">I would have betrayed the generation of your children.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But when I thought how to understand this,</span><br /><span class="indent">it seemed to me a wearisome task,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">until I went into the sanctuary of God;</span><br /><span class="indent">then I discerned their end.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Truly you set them in slippery places;</span><br /><span class="indent">you make them fall to ruin.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How they are destroyed in a moment,</span><br /><span class="indent">swept away utterly by terrors!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Like a dream when one awakes,</span><br /><span class="indent">O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">When my soul was embittered,</span><br /><span class="indent">when I was pricked in heart,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I was brutish and ignorant;</span><br /><span class="indent">I was like a beast toward you.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Nevertheless, I am continually with you;</span><br /><span class="indent">you hold my right hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You guide me with your counsel,</span><br /><span class="indent">and afterward you will receive me to glory.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Whom have I in heaven but you?</span><br /><span class="indent">And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My flesh and my heart may fail,</span><br /><span class="indent">but God is the strength<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew rock">b</a></sup></span> of my heart and my portion forever.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;</span><br /><span class="indent">you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/73-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But for me it is good to be near God;</span><br /><span class="indent">I have made the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> my refuge,</span><br /><span class="indent">that I may tell of all your works.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Probable reading; Hebrew <i>the waters of a full cup are drained by them</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> Hebrew <i>rock</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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