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Psalms 73

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. ✦ 2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. ✦ 3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. ✦ 4For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. ✦ 5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. ✦ 6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. ✦ 7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. ✦ 8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. ✦ 9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth. ✦ 10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. ✦ 11And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? ✦ 12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. ✦ 13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. ✦ 14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. ✦ 15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. ✦ 16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; ✦ 17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end. ✦ 18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. ✦ 19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. ✦ 20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image. ✦ 21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins. ✦ 22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. ✦ 23Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. ✦ 24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. ✦ 25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. ✦ 26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. ✦ 27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee. ✦ 28But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 37 ·12Job 21 ·9Ps 17 ·9Ps 119 ·6Ps 16 ·6Ps 73 ·5Jas 4 ·5Jer 5 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 73 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 73David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 73Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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