Thematic Bible
Psalm 73:1 (show verse)
A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,
Psalm 73:2 (show verse)
As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
Psalm 73:3 (show verse)
The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
Psalm 73:4 (show verse)
And their might is firm.
Psalm 73:5 (show verse)
In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
Psalm 73:6 (show verse)
Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
Psalm 73:7 (show verse)
Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
Psalm 73:8 (show verse)
They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
Psalm 73:9 (show verse)
They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
Psalm 73:10 (show verse)
Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
Psalm 73:11 (show verse)
And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
Psalm 73:12 (show verse)
Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
Psalm 73:13 (show verse)
Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
Psalm 73:14 (show verse)
And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.
Psalm 73:15 (show verse)
If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
Psalm 73:16 (show verse)
And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,
Psalm 73:17 (show verse)
Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
Psalm 73:18 (show verse)
Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
Psalm 73:19 (show verse)
How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
Psalm 73:20 (show verse)
As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
Psalm 73:21 (show verse)
For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
Psalm 73:22 (show verse)
And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
Psalm 73:23 (show verse)
And I am continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.
Psalm 73:24 (show verse)
With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
Psalm 73:25 (show verse)
Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.
Psalm 73:26 (show verse)
Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.
Psalm 73:27 (show verse)
For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.
Psalm 73:28 (show verse)
And I -- nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!