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         <div class="label">73</div><div class="d"><span class="content">A Psalm of Asaph.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Truly God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> good to Israel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Even</span></span><span class="content"> to such as are of a clean heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.73.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But as for me, my feet were almost gone;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="content">My steps had well nigh slipped.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.73.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For I was envious at the foolish,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">When</span></span><span class="content"> I saw the prosperity of the wicked.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.73.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there are</span></span><span class="content"> no bands in their death:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="content">But their strength </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> firm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.73.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> not in trouble </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as other</span></span><span class="content"> men;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="content">Neither are they plagued like </span><span class="add"><span class="content">other</span></span><span class="content"> men.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.73.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="content">Violence covereth them </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> a garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.73.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Their eyes stand out with fatness:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="content">They have more than heart could wish.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.73.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They are corrupt, and speak wickedly </span><span class="add"><span class="content">concerning</span></span><span class="content"> oppression:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="content">They speak loftily.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.73.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">They set their mouth against the heavens,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="content">And their tongue walketh through the earth.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.73.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Therefore his people return hither:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="content">And waters of a full </span><span class="add"><span class="content">cup</span></span><span class="content"> are wrung out to them.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.73.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And they say, How doth God know?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="content">And is there knowledge in the most High?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.73.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Behold, these </span><span class="add"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> riches.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.73.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Verily I have cleansed my heart </span><span class="add"><span class="content">in</span></span><span class="content"> vain, and washed my hands in innocency.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.73.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For all the day long have I been plagued,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="content">And chastened every morning.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.73.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If I say, I will speak thus;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="content">Behold, I should offend </span><span class="add"><span class="content">against</span></span><span class="content"> the generation of thy children.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PSA.73.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">When I thought to know this,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="content">It </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> too painful for me;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PSA.73.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Until I went into the sanctuary of God;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">Then</span></span><span class="content"> understood I their end.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PSA.73.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Surely thou didst set them in slippery places:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="content">Thou castedst them down into destruction.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PSA.73.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">How are they </span><span class="add"><span class="content">brought</span></span><span class="content"> into desolation, as in a moment!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="content">They are utterly consumed with terrors.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PSA.73.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">As a dream when </span><span class="add"><span class="content">one</span></span><span class="content"> awaketh;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">So</span></span><span class="content">, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PSA.73.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Thus my heart was grieved,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="content">And I was pricked in my reins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PSA.73.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">So foolish </span><span class="add"><span class="content">was</span></span><span class="content"> I, and ignorant:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="content">I was </span><span class="add"><span class="content">as</span></span><span class="content"> a beast before thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PSA.73.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Nevertheless I </span><span class="add"><span class="content">am</span></span><span class="content"> continually with thee:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="content">Thou hast holden </span><span class="add"><span class="content">me</span></span><span class="content"> by my right hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PSA.73.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="content">And afterward receive me </span><span class="add"><span class="content">to</span></span><span class="content"> glory.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PSA.73.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Whom have I in heaven </span><span class="add"><span class="content">but thee?</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="content">And </span><span class="add"><span class="content">there is</span></span><span class="content"> none upon earth </span><span class="add"><span class="content">that</span></span><span class="content"> I desire beside thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PSA.73.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">My flesh and my heart faileth:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">But</span></span><span class="content"> God </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PSA.73.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="content">Thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PSA.73.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">But </span><span class="add"><span class="content">it is</span></span><span class="content"> good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">GOD</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PSA.73.28"><span class="content">That I may declare all thy works.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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