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| 1 A Psalm of Asaph. |
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| Only good to Israel [is] God, to the clean of heart. And I as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside, |
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| 2 As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful, |
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| 3 The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death, |
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| 4 And their might [is] firm. |
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| 5 In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. |
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| 6 Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. |
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| 7 Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; |
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| 8 They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. |
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| 9 They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. |
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| 10 Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. |
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| 11 And they have said, 'How hath God known And is there knowledge in the Most High ' |
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| 12 Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. |
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| 13 Only a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands, |
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| 14 And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning. |
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| 15 If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived. |
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| 16 And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes, |
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| 17 Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end. |
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| 18 Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. |
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| 19 How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended consumed from terrors. |
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| 20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest. |
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| 21 For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves, |
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| 22 And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee. |
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| 23 And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand. |
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| 24 With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me. |
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| 25 Whom have I in the heavens And with Thee none I have desired in earth. |
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| 26 Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age. |
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| 27 For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee. |
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| 28 And I nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works! |
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