Thematic Bible
Psalm 73:1 (show verse)
Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
Psalm 73:2 (show verse)
But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.
Psalm 73:3 (show verse)
For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalm 73:4 (show verse)
For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.
Psalm 73:5 (show verse)
They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
Psalm 73:6 (show verse)
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
Psalm 73:7 (show verse)
Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.
Psalm 73:8 (show verse)
They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.
Psalm 73:9 (show verse)
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
Psalm 73:10 (show verse)
Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.
Psalm 73:11 (show verse)
And they say, "How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"
Psalm 73:12 (show verse)
Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.
Psalm 73:13 (show verse)
All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.
Psalm 73:14 (show verse)
For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.
Psalm 73:15 (show verse)
If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Psalm 73:16 (show verse)
But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task,
Psalm 73:17 (show verse)
until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
Psalm 73:18 (show verse)
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
Psalm 73:19 (show verse)
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Psalm 73:20 (show verse)
Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
Psalm 73:21 (show verse)
When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,
Psalm 73:22 (show verse)
I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.
Psalm 73:23 (show verse)
Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.
Psalm 73:24 (show verse)
You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory.
Psalm 73:25 (show verse)
Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
Psalm 73:26 (show verse)
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:27 (show verse)
For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
Psalm 73:28 (show verse)
But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.