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73:1 A Psalme committed to Asaph. Yet God is good to Israel: euen, to the pure in heart.
73:2 As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well neere slipt.
73:3 For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.
73:4 For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.
73:5 They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.
73:6 Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.
73:7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.
73:8 They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.
73:9 They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
73:10 Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
73:11 And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?
73:12 Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.
73:13 Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
73:14 For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.
73:15 If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.
73:16 Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,
73:17 Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.
73:18 Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.
73:19 How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,
73:20 As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
73:21 Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:
73:22 So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
73:23 Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
73:24 Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.
73:25 Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee.
73:26 My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.
73:27 For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.
73:28 As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.