AB - Psalms - 73

73:1  How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart!

73:2  But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped.

73:3  For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners.

73:4  For there is no sign of reluctance in their death, and they have firmness under their affliction.

73:5  They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men.

73:6  Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

73:7  Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness; they have fulfilled their intention.

73:8  They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness; they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

73:9  They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

73:10  Therefore shall my people return here, and full days shall be found with them.

73:11  And they said, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

73:12  Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always; they have possessed wealth.

73:13  And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocence.

73:14  For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning.

73:15  If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of Your children.

73:16  And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,

73:17  until I go into the sanctuary of God, and so understand the latter end.

73:18  Surely You have appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up.

73:19  How have they become desolate! Suddenly they have failed; they have perished because of their iniquity.

73:20  As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

73:21  For my heart has rejoiced, and my heart has been gladdened.

73:22  But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before You.

73:23  Yet I am continually with You. You have taken hold of my right hand.

73:24  You have guided me by Your counsel, and You have taken me to Yourself with glory.

73:25  For whom have I in heaven but You? And what have I desired upon the earth besides You?

73:26  My heart and my flesh have failed; but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion forever.

73:27  For behold, they that remove themselves far from You shall perish; You have destroyed everyone that goes a whoring from You.

73:28  But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all Your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion.