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Surely God is good to Israel, to the clean of heart.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And I, my feet nearly turned aside; my going was almost poured out.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For I was envious at the foolish; I shall see the peace of the unjust.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For not the pains to their death, and their body fat.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are not in the trouble of men, and with man they shall not be struck.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Their eye will come forth from fat: they passed over the imaginations of the heart.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They will mock and speak in evil of oppression: they will speak from elevation.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue will go in the earth.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For this, his people will turn back here: and full water shall be sucked out to them.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they said, How did God know? 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 the unjust, and they being secure of the world increased riches.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Surely in vain I cleansed my heart, and I will wash my hands in cleanness.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And I am struck all the day, and my reproofs for the mornings.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>If I said, I will recount thus; behold, I transgressed against the generation of thy sons.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And I shall think to know this, it is labor in mine eyes.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Till I shall come to the holy place of God I shall not understand for their latter state.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Surely in slippery places thou wilt set them, to cast them down into ruins.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As a dream of him awaking, O Jehovah, in awaking thou wilt 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 will be embittered, and my loins were hard.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And I always with thee: thou didst hold by my right hand.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>In thy counsel thou wilt guide me, and after, thou wilt receive me with glory.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Who to me in the heavens? and from thee I desired nothing in the earth.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>My flesh failed and my heart: the rock of my heart and my portion is God forever.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For behold, they being far off from thee shall perish: thou didst lay waste all committing fornication from thee.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/73-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And I drawing near to God, it is good for me: I put in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, to recount all thy works.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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