Psalms 73 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^73:1 BOOK III. A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure in heart.
^73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well near slipped.
^73:3 For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
^73:4 For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.
^73:5 They are not in trouble as common man; Neither are they plagued like man.
^73:6 Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covers them as a garment.
^73:7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.
^73:8 They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.
^73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walks through the earth.
^73:10 Therefore his people return here: And waters of a full [cup] are drained by them.
^73:11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
^73:12 Look, these are the wicked; And, being always at ease, they increase in riches.
^73:13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence;
^73:14 For all the day long I have been plagued, And chastened every morning.
^73:15 If I had said, I will speak thus; Look, I would have betrayed the generation of your sons.
^73:16 When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;
^73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.
^73:18 Surely you set them in slippery places: You cast them down to destruction.
^73:19 How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are completely consumed with terrors.
^73:20 As a dream when one awakes, So, O Lord, when you awake, you will despise their image.
^73:21 For my heart was grieved, And I was pricked in my inward parts:
^73:22 So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast before you.
^73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with you: You have held my right hand.
^73:24 You will guide me with your counsel, And afterward receive me to glory.
^73:25 Whom have I in heaven [but you] And there is none on earth that I desire besides you.
^73:26 My flesh and my heart fails; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
^73:27 For, look, those who are far from you will perish: You have destroyed all those prostituting from you.
^73:28 But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have made the Sovereign Yahweh my refuge, That I may tell of all your works.

Psalms, Chapter 73