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Psalms 73
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1(74) [A Psalm] of instruction for Asaph. Therefore have you rejected [us], O God, for ever? [therefore] is your wrath kindled against the sheep of your pasture?
1Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2Remember your congregation which you have purchased from the beginning; you did ransom the rod of your inheritance; this mount Sion wherein you have lived.
2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3Lift up your hands against their pride continually; [because of] all that the enemy has done wickedly in your holy places.
3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4And they that hate you have boasted in the midst of your feast; they have set up their standards for signs,
4For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5ignorantly as it were in the entrance above;
5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6they cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; they have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7They have burnt your sanctuary with fire to the ground; they have profaned the habitation of your name.
7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8They have said in their heart, [even] all their kindred together, Come, let us abolish the feasts of the Lord from the earth.
8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9We have not seen our signs; there is no longer a prophet; and [God] will not know us any more.
9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10How long, O God, shall the enemy reproach? shall the enemy provoke your name forever?
10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11Therefore turn you away your hand, and your right hand from the midst of your bosom for ever?
11And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12But God is our King of old; he has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13You did establish the sea, in your might, you did break to pieces the heads of the dragons in the water.
13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14You did break to pieces the heads of the dragon; you did give him [for] meat to the Ethiopian nations.
14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15You did cleave fountains and torrents; you dried up mighty rivers.
15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16The day is yours, and the night is yours; you have prepared the sun and the moon.
16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17You have made all the borders of the earth; you have made summer and spring.
17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18Remember this your creation: an enemy has reproached the Lord, and a foolish people has provoked your name.
18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19Deliver not to the wild beasts a soul that gives praise to you: forget not for ever the souls of your poor.
19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20Look upon your covenant: for the dark [places] of the earth are filled with the habitations of iniquity.
20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21let not the afflicted and shamed one be rejected: the poor and needy shall praise your name.
21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22Arise, O God, plead your cause: remember your reproaches that come from the foolish one all the day.
22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
23Forget not the voice of your suppliants: let the pride of them that hate you continually ascend before you.
23Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.