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2.3 KiB
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58 lines
2.3 KiB
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# Chapter 73
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1 Truly God is good to Israel,
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to those who are pure in heart.
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2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled,
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my steps had nearly slipped.
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3 For I was envious of the arrogant
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when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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4 For they have no pangs until death;
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their bodies are fat and sleek.
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5 They are not in trouble as others are;
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they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
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6 Therefore pride is their necklace;
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violence covers them as a garment.
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7 Their eyes swell out through fatness;
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their hearts overflow with follies.
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8 They scoff and speak with malice;
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loftily they threaten oppression.
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9 They set their mouths against the heavens,
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and their tongue struts through the earth.
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10 Therefore his people turn back to them,
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and find no fault in them.
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11 And they say, “How can God know?
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Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
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12 Behold, these are the wicked;
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always at ease, they increase in riches.
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13 All in vain have I kept my heart clean
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and washed my hands in innocence.
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14 For all the day long I have been stricken
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and rebuked every morning.
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15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
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I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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16 But when I thought how to understand this,
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it seemed to me a wearisome task,
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17 until I went into the sanctuary of God;
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then I discerned their end.
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18 Truly you set them in slippery places;
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you make them fall to ruin.
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19 How they are destroyed in a moment,
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swept away utterly by terrors!
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20 Like a dream when one awakes,
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O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
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21 When my soul was embittered,
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when I was pricked in heart,
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22 I was brutish and ignorant;
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I was like a beast toward you.
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23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
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you hold my right hand.
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24 You guide me with your counsel,
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and afterward you will receive me to glory.
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25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
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And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
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26 My flesh and my heart may fail,
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but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
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27 For behold, those who are far from you shall perish;
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you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you.
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28 But for me it is good to be near God;
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I have made the Lord God my refuge,
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that I may tell of all your works. |