Psalm 73:1-14
Book III
Psalms 73–89
Psalm 73
A psalm of Asaph.
God is truly good to Israel.
He is good to those who have pure hearts.
But my feet had almost slipped.
I had almost tripped and fallen.
I saw that proud and sinful people were doing well.
And I began to long for what they had.
They don’t have any troubles.
Their bodies are healthy and strong.
They don’t have the problems most people have.
They don’t suffer as other people do.
Their pride is like a necklace.
They put on meanness as if it were their clothes.
Many sins come out of their hard and stubborn hearts.
There is no limit to the evil things they can think up.
They laugh at others and speak words of hatred.
They are proud. They warn others about the harm they can do to them.
They brag as if they owned heaven itself.
They talk as if they controlled the earth.
So people listen to them.
They lap up their words like water.
They say, “How would God know what we’re doing?
Does the Most High God know anything?”
Here is what sinful people are like.
They don’t have a care in the world.
They keep getting richer and richer.
It seems as if I have kept my heart pure for no reason.
It didn’t do me any good to wash my hands
to show that I wasn’t guilty of doing anything wrong.
Day after day I’ve been in pain.
God has punished me in a new way every morning.
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