Psalms 72 (DRA)

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v1

A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

v2

But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.

v3

Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

v4

For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

v5

They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

v6

Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

v7

Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

v8

They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

v9

They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

v10

Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

v11

And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

v12

Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

v13

And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

v14

And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

v15

If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

v16

I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

v17

Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

v18

But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

v19

How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

v20

As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

v21

For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:

v22

And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

v23

I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.

v24

Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.

v25

For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?

v26

For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

v27

For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.

v28

But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

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