Thematic Bible
Psalm 73:1 (show verse)
Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of 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)
because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.
Psalm 73:4 (show verse)
For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.
Psalm 73:5 (show verse)
They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.
Psalm 73:6 (show verse)
Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.
Psalm 73:7 (show verse)
Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.
Psalm 73:8 (show verse)
They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak [as though] from on high.
Psalm 73:9 (show verse)
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.
Psalm 73:10 (show verse)
Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them.
Psalm 73:11 (show verse)
And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"
Psalm 73:12 (show verse)
See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
Psalm 73:13 (show verse)
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
Psalm 73:14 (show verse)
And I have been plagued all day and rebuked {every morning}.
Psalm 73:15 (show verse)
If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation.
Psalm 73:16 (show verse)
When I thought about [how] to understand this, it [was] troubling in my eyes
Psalm 73:17 (show verse)
until I went into the sanctuary of God. [Then] I understood their fate.
Psalm 73:18 (show verse)
Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
Psalm 73:19 (show verse)
How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.
Psalm 73:20 (show verse)
Like a dream upon awakening, when [you] wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
Psalm 73:21 (show verse)
When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,
Psalm 73:22 (show verse)
then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.
Psalm 73:23 (show verse)
But I [am] continually with you; you have hold of my right hand.
Psalm 73:24 (show verse)
You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me [into] honor.
Psalm 73:25 (show verse)
Whom do I have in the heavens [except you]? And with you I have no [other] desire on earth.
Psalm 73:26 (show verse)
My flesh and heart failed, [but] God [is] the {strength} of my heart and my reward forever.
Psalm 73:27 (show verse)
For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.
Psalm 73:28 (show verse)
But as for me, the approach to God [is] for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh [as] my refuge, in order to tell all your works.