Psalms 72 — BST
72Verse 1A Psalm for Asaph.How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart!Verse 2But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped.Verse 3For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquillity of sinners.Verse 4For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction.Verse 5They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men.Verse 6Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.Verse 7Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention.Verse 8They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.Verse 9They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.Verse 10Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found+with them.Verse 11And they said, How does God know? and+is there knowledge in the Most High?Verse 12Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.Verse 13And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.Verse 14For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning.Verse 15If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.Verse 16And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,Verse 17until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end.Verse 18Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up.Verse 19How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.Verse 20As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.Verse 21For my heart has rejoiced, and my reins have been+gladdened.Verse 22But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before thee.Verse 23Yet I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand.Verse 24Thou hast guided me by thy counsel, and thou hast taken me to thyself with glory.Verse 25For what have I in heaven but thee? and what have I desired upon the earth beside thee?Verse 26My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever.Verse 27For, behold, they that remove themselves far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed every one that goes a whoring from thee.Verse 28But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion.