Psalm 73

¹A Psalme committed to Asaph. Yet God is good to Israel: euen, to the pure in heart.

²As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well neere slipt.

³For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.

⁴For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.

⁵They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

⁶Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.

⁷Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.

⁸They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.

⁹They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

¹⁰Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

¹¹And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?

¹²Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

¹³Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

¹⁴For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

¹⁵If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.