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Only — good to Israel [is] God, to the clean of heart. And I — as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And their might [is] firm.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;</p> <p class="reg"><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, From on high they speak.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness 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 have said, ‘How hath God known? 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>Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.</p> <p class="reg"><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 in innocency my hands,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I have said, ‘I recount thus,’ Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And I — nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Young's Literal Translation<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/72.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 72"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 72" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/74.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 74"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 74" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/psalms/73-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="../sidemenu.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <br /><br /></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhpar.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>