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Psalm

Psalm 72 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷

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.