Darby's English Translation

Psalms 72

The Book of Psalms

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Chapter 73

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  {A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.  

 

 

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  But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped;  

 

 

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  For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.  

 

 

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  For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;  

 

 

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  They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men:  

 

 

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  Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;  

 

 

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  Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:  

 

 

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  They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:  

 

 

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  They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.  

 

 

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  Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.  

 

 

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  And they say, How can łGod know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?  

 

 

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  Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.  

 

 

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  Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:  

 

 

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  For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.  

 

 

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  If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.  

 

 

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  When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;  

 

 

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  Until I went into the sanctuaries of łGod; [then] understood I their end.  

 

 

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  Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.  

 

 

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  How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.  

 

 

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  As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.  

 

 

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  When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,  

 

 

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  Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was [as] a beast with thee.  

 

 

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  Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand;  

 

 

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  Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and after the glory, thou wilt receive me.  

 

 

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  Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.  

 

 

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  My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.  

 

 

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  For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.  

 

 

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  But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all thy works.  

 

 

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Psalms 74

 

 

 

 

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