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1 (72-1) <A psalm for Asaph.> How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
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Truly God is good to the upright, to those who are pure in heart.
2 (72-2) But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
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But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped.
3 (72-3) Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
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For I was envious of the arrogant; I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 (72-4) For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
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For they have no pain; their bodies are sound and sleek.
5 (72-5) They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
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They are not in trouble as others are; they are not plagued like other people.
6 (72-6) Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
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Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them like a garment.
7 (72-7) Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
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Their eyes swell out with fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
8 (72-8) They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
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They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
9 (72-9) They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
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They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues range over the earth.
10 (72-10) Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
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Therefore the people turn and praise them, and find no fault in them.
11 (72-11) And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
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And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
12 (72-12) Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
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Such are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
13 (72-13) And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
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All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
14 (72-14) And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
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For all day long I have been plagued, and am punished every morning.
15 (72-15) If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
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If I had said, "I will talk on in this way," I would have been untrue to the circle of your children.
16 (72-16) I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
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But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
17 (72-17) Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
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until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I perceived their end.
18 (72-18) But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
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Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
19 (72-19) How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
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How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
20 (72-20) As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
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They are like a dream when one awakes; on awaking you despise their phantoms.
21 (72-21) For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
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When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
22 (72-22) And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
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I was stupid and ignorant; I was like a brute beast toward you.
23 (72-23) I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
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Nevertheless I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
24 (72-24) Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
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You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me with honor.
25 (72-25) For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
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Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you.
26 (72-26) For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
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My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27 (72-27) For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
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Indeed, those who are far from you will perish; you put an end to those who are false to you.
28 (72-28) But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
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But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, to tell of all your works.
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