Geneva1599 - Psalms - 73

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.