TEHILLIM - PSALMS 73

The Psalmist's Temptation

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  1     ^¶  A Psalm of Asaph. Truly YAHWEH is good to Yisrael, even to such as are of a pure sincere heart.

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  2    But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

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  3    For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity shalom of the wicked.

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  4    For there are no bands in their death: but their prominence is firm.

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  5    They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other sons of adam.

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  6    Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

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  7    Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

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  8    They are corrupt, and speak evil concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

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  9    They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

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  10    Therefore HIS people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

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  11    And they say, How dose YAHWEH know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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  12    Behold, these are the wicked, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

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  13    Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence.

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  14    For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

How He Gained A Victory Over It

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  15     ^¶  If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of YOUR children.

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  16    When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

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  17    Until I went into the sanctuary of YAHWEH; then understood I their end.

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  18    Surely YOU did set them in slippery places: YOU casted them down into destruction.

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  19    How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

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  20    As a dream when one awakes; so, O Sovereign YAHWEH, when YOU awake, YOU shall despise their image.

How He Profited By It

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  21     ^¶  Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

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  22    So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before YOU.

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  23    Nevertheless I am continually with YOU: YOU have holden me by my right hand.

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  24    YOU shall guide me with YOUR counsel, and afterward receive me to splendor.

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  25    Whom have I in heaven but YOU? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside YOU.

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  26    My flesh and my heart fails: but YAHWEH is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

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  27    For, lo, they that are far from YOU shall perish: YOU have destroyed all them that go a whoring from YOU.

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  28    But it is good for me to draw near to YAHWEH: I have put my trust in the Sovereign YAHWEH, that I may declare all YOUR works.