KJV-Parallel Bibles
1. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3. For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
5. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
6. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7. Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10. Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11. And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12. Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
13. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
14. For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15. If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
16. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
17. Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
18. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
19. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
20. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
21. Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
22. So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
23. Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
26. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
27. For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
28. 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.
1. A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel [is] God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,
2. As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
3. The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
4. And their might [is] firm.
5. In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
6. Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
7. Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
8. They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
9. They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
10. Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
11. And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
12. Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
13. Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
14. And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.
15. If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
16. And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
17. Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
18. Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
19. How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended -- consumed from terrors.
20. As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
21. For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
22. And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
23. And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.
24. With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
25. Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.
26. Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.
27. For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.
28. And I -- nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!
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