engLXXup: Psalms 72

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 [1] A Psalm for Asaph.

How good is God to Israel,

To the upright in heart!

[2] But my feet were almost overthrown;

My goings very nearly slipped.

[3] For I was jealous of the transgressors,

Beholding the tranquility of sinners.

[4] For there is no sign of reluctance in their death:

And they have firmness under their affliction.

[5] They are not in the troubles of other men;

And they shall not be scourged with other men.

[6] Therefore pride has possessed them;

They have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

[7] Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness:

They have fulfilled their intention.

[8] They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness:

They have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

[9] They have set their mouth against heaven,

And their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

[10] Therefore shall my people return hither:

And full days shall be found with them.

[11] And they said, How does God know?

And is there knowledge in the Most High?

[12] Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always:

They have possessed wealth.

[13] And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart,

And washed my hands in innocency.

[14] For I was plagued all the day,

And my reproof was every morning.

[15] If I said, I will speak thus;

Behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

[16] And I undertook to understand this,

But it is too hard for me,

[17] Until I go into the sanctuary of God;

And so understand the latter end.

[18] Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings:

Thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up.

[19] How have they become desolate!

Suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.

[20] As the dream of one awakening,

O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.

[21] For my heart has rejoiced,

And my reins have been gladdened.

[22] But I was vile and knew not:

I became brutish before thee.

[23] Yet I am continually with thee:

Thou hast holden my right hand.

[24] Thou hast guided me by thy counsel,

And thou hast taken me to thyself with glory.

[25] For what have I in heaven but thee?

And what have I desired upon the earth beside thee?

[26] My heart and my flesh have failed:

But God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion forever.

[27] For, behold, they that remove themselves far from thee shall perish:

Thou hast destroyed everyone that goes a-whoring from thee.

[28] But it is good for me to cleave close to God,

To put my trust in the Lord;

That I may proclaim all thy praises

In the gates of the daughter of Zion.

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