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