- 1. {A Psalm of Asaph.}<br>
Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart. - 2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped;
- 3. For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
- 4. For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
- 5. They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men:
- 6. Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;
- 7. Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
- 8. They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
- 9. They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
- 10. Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
- 11. And they say, How can �God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
- 12. Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
- 13. Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
- 14. For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
- 15. If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
- 16. When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
- 17. Until I went into the sanctuaries of �God; [then] understood I their end.
- 18. Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
- 19. How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.
- 20. As a dream, when one awaketh, wilt thou, Lord, on arising despise their image.
- 21. When my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins,
- 22. Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was [as] a beast with thee.
- 23. Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand;
- 24. Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and after the glory, thou wilt receive me.
- 25. Whom have I in the heavens? and there is none upon earth I desire beside thee.
- 26. My flesh and my heart faileth: God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
- 27. For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.
- 28. But as for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord Jehovah, that I may declare all thy works.
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