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| [1]How good is God to Israel, to the upright in heart! |
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| [2]But my feet were almost overthrown; my goings very nearly slipped. |
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| [3]For I was jealous of the transgressors, beholding the tranquility of sinners. |
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| [4]For there is no sign of reluctance in their death: and they have firmness under their affliction. |
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| [5]They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. |
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| [6]Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. |
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| [7]Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention. |
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| [8]They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily. |
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| [9]They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth. |
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| [10]Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them. |
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| [11]And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High? |
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| [12]Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth. |
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| [13]And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency. |
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| [14]For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning. |
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| [15]If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children. |
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| [16]And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me, |
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| [17]until I go into the sanctuary of God; and so understand the latter end. |
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| [18]Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up. |
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| [19]How have they become desolate! suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity. |
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| [20]As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image. |
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| [21]For my heart has rejoiced, and my reins have been gladdened. |
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| [22]But I was vile and knew not: I became brutish before thee. |
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| [23]Yet I am continually with thee: thou hast holden my right hand. |
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| [24]Thou hast guided me by thy counsel, and thou hast taken me to thyself with glory. |
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| [25]For what have I in heaven but thee? and what have I desired upon the earth beside thee? |
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| [26]My heart and my flesh have failed: but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion for ever. |
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| [27]For, behold, they that remove themselves far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed every one that goes a whoring from thee. |
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| [28]But it is good for me to cleave close to God, to put my trust in the Lord; that I may proclaim all thy praises in the gates of the daughter of Sion. |
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