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my steps had well near slipped.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore his people return here: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they say, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of your children.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As a dream when one wakes; so, O Lord, when you wake, you shall despise their image.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Nevertheless I am continually with you: you have held me by my right hand.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none on earth that I desire beside you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For, see, they that are far from you shall perish: you have destroyed all them that go a whoring from you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>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 your works.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The American King James Version is Produced by Stone Engelbrite. 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