Psalm 73 - ESV Bible - Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure...

1 Truly God is good to ¹Israel, to those who are ²pure in heart.

2 But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.

3 ³For I was ⁴envious of the arrogant when I saw the ⁵prosperity of the wicked.

4 For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.

5 They are not in trouble as others are; they are not ⁶stricken like the rest of mankind.

6 Therefore pride is ⁷their necklace; violence covers them as ⁸a garment.

7 Their ⁹eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

8 They scoff and ¹⁰speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.

10 Therefore his people turn back to them, and find ¹¹no fault in them.^a

11 And they say, ¹²"How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

12 Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they ¹³increase in riches.

13 All in vain have I ¹⁴kept my heart clean and ¹⁵washed my hands in innocence.

14 For all the day long I have been ¹⁶stricken and ¹⁷rebuked ¹⁸every morning.

15 If I had said, "I will speak thus," I would have betrayed ¹⁹the generation of your children.

16 But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me ²⁰a wearisome task,

17 until I went into ²¹the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their ²²end.

18 Truly you set them in ²³slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.

19 How they are destroyed ²⁴in a moment, swept away utterly by ²⁵terrors!

20 Like ²⁶a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when ²⁷you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

21 When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,

22 I was ²⁸brutish and ignorant; I was like ²⁹a beast toward you.

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you ³⁰hold my right hand.

24 You ³¹guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will ³²receive me to glory.

25 ³³Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

26 ³⁴My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is ³⁵the strength^b of my heart and my ³⁶portion ³⁷forever.

27 For behold, those who are ³⁸far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is ³⁹unfaithful to you.

28 But for me it is good to ⁴⁰be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my ⁴¹refuge, that I may ⁴²tell of all your works.

Psalm 73 ESV