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Psalm 72 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Endow the King with Your Justice
1 A Psalm to Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
2 But my feet were almost moved, my steps almost slipped.
3 Because I have had zeal upon the wicked, seeing the peace of sinners.
4 Because there is no respect to their death: and stability in their plague.
5 In the labours of men they are not, and with men they shall not be scourged.
6 Therefore hath pride held them, they are covered with their iniquity and impiety.
7 Their iniquity hath proceeded as it were of fat: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
8 They have thought and have spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
9 They have set their mouth unto heaven: and their tongue hath passed in the earth.
10 Therefore will my people return here: and full days shall be found in them.
11 And they have said: How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the highest?
12 Lo the sinners themselves, and they that abound in the world, have obtained riches.
13 And I said: Then have I justified my heart without cause, and have washed my hands amongst innocents:
14 And have been scourged all the day, and my chastising in the mornings.
15 If I said: I will speak this: behold I reproved the nation of thy children.
16 I thought to know this thing, it is labour before me:
17 Until I may enter into the sanctuary of God: and may understand concerning their latter ends.
18 But yet for guiles thou hast put it to them: thou hast cast them down whilst they were elevated.
19 How are they brought into desolation, they have failed suddenly: they have perished for their iniquity.
20 As the dream of them that rise, o Lord, in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
21 Because my heart is inflamed, and my reins are changed:
22 And I am brought to nothing, and knew not.
23 As a beast am I become with thee: and I always with thee.
24 Thou hast held my right hand: and in thy will thou hast conducted me, and with glory thou hast received me.
25 For what is to me in heaven? And besides thee what would I upon the earth?
26 My flesh hath fainted, and my heart: God of my heart, and God my portion for ever.
27 For behold, they that make themselves far from thee, shall perish: thou hast destroyed all that fornicate from thee.
28 But it is good for me to cleave to God: to put my hope in our Lord God. That I may shew forth all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.
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