{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Psalms",
 "chapter": 73,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "[A Psalm of Asaph.] Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?"
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children."
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;"
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction."
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image."
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. before Heb. with"
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory."
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever."
  },
  {
   "v": 27,
   "t": "For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee."
  },
  {
   "v": 28,
   "t": "But 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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}