Psa 73 | ESV | STEP | A Psalm of Asaph . Truly God is good to Israel , to those who are pure in heart .

1 Truly God is good to ^bIsrael,
to those who are ^cpure in heart.
2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,
my steps had nearly slipped.
3 ^dFor I was ^eenvious of the arrogant
when I saw the ^fprosperity of the wicked.
4 For they have no pangs until death;
their bodies are fat and sleek.
5 They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not ^gstricken like the rest of mankind.
6 Therefore pride is ^htheir necklace;
violence covers them as ⁱa garment.
7 Their ^jeyes swell out through fatness;
their hearts overflow with follies.
8 They scoff and ^kspeak with malice;
loftily they threaten oppression.
9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
and their tongue struts through the earth.
10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
and find ^lno fault in them. ^{▼▼Probable reading; Hebrew the waters of a full cup are drained by them}
11 And they say, ⁿ“How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they ^oincrease in riches.
13 All in vain have I ^pkept my heart clean
and ^qwashed my hands in innocence.
14 For all the day long I have been ^rstricken
and ^srebuked ^tevery morning.
15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
I would have betrayed ^uthe generation of your children.
16 But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me ^va wearisome task,
17 until I went into ^wthe sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their ^xend.
18 Truly you set them in ^yslippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed ^zin a moment,
swept away utterly by ^aaterrors!
20 Like ^aba dream when one awakes,
O Lord, when ^acyou rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
21 When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was ^adbrutish and ignorant;
I was like ^aea beast toward you.
23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you ^afhold my right hand.
24 You ^agguide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will ^ahreceive me to glory.
25 ^aiWhom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
26 ^ajMy flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is ^akthe strength ^{▼▼Hebrew rock} of my heart and my ^amportion ^anforever.
27 For behold, those who are ^aofar from you shall perish;
you put an end to everyone who is ^apunfaithful to you.
28 But for me it is good to ^aqbe near God;
I have made the Lord God my ^arrefuge,
that I may ^astell of all your works.

‏ Psalms 73

God Is My Strength and Portion Forever

A Psalm of aAsaph.

A Psalm of ^aAsaph.