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| [1]Yet God is good to Israel: even, to the pure in heart. |
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| [2]As for me, my feet were almost gone: my steps had well near slipped. |
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| [3]For I feared at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. |
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| [4]For there are no bands in their death, but they are lusty and strong. |
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| [5]They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men. |
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| [6]Therefore pride is as a chain unto them, and cruelty covereth them as a garment. |
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| [7]Their eyes stand out for fatness: they have more then heart can wish. |
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| [8]They are licentious, and speak wickedly of their oppression: they talk presumptuously. |
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| [9]They set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue walketh through the earth. |
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| [10]Therefore his people turn hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. |
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| [11]And they say, How doth God know it? Or is there knowledge in the Most High? |
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| [12]Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches. |
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| [13]Certainly I have cleansed mine heart in vain, and washed mine hands in innocency. |
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| [14]For daily have I been punished, and chastened every morning. |
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| [15]If I say, I will judge thus, behold the generation of thy children: I have trespassed. |
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| [16]Then thought I to know this, but it was too painful for me, |
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| [17]Until I went into the sanctuary of God: then understood I their end. |
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| [18]Surely thou hast set them in slippery places , and castest them down into desolation. |
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| [19]How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed, |
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| [20]As a dream when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest us up, thou shalt make their image despised. |
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| [21]Certainly mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reins: |
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| [22]So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee. |
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| [23]Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand. |
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| [24]Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. |
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| [25]Whom have I in heaven but thee? And I have desired none in the earth with thee. |
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| [26]My flesh faileth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion forever. |
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| [27]For lo, they that withdraw themselves from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that go a whoring from thee. |
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| [28]As for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: therefore I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works. |
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