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Psalms 73
Psalms 73
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
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How good God is to Israel—to those whose hearts are pure.
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But as for me, I came so close to the edge of the cliff! My feet were slipping and I was almost gone.
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For I was envious of the prosperity of the proud and wicked.
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Yes, all through life their road is smooth! They grow sleek and fat.
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They aren't always in trouble and plagued with problems like everyone else,
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so their pride sparkles like a jeweled necklace, and their clothing is woven of cruelty!
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These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for!
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They scoff at God and threaten his people. How proudly they speak!
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They boast against the very heavens, and their words strut through the earth.
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And so God's people are dismayed and confused and drink it all in.
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“Does God realize what is going on?“ they ask.
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“Look at these men of arrogance; they never have to lift a finger—theirs is a life of ease; and all the time their riches multiply.“
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Have I been wasting my time? Why take the trouble to be pure?
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All I get out of it is trouble and woe—every day and all day long!
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If I had really said that, I would have been a traitor to your people.
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Yet it is so hard to explain it—this prosperity of those who hate the Lord.
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Then one day I went into God's sanctuary to meditate and thought about the future of these evil men.
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What a slippery path they are on—suddenly God will send them sliding over the edge of the cliff and down to their destruction:
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an instant end to all their happiness, an eternity of terror.
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Their present life is only a dream! They will awaken to the truth as one awakens from a dream of things that never really were!
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When I saw this, what turmoil filled my heart!
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I saw myself so stupid and so ignorant; I must seem like an animal to you, O God.
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But even so, you love me! You are holding my right hand!
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You will keep on guiding me all my life with your wisdom and counsel, and afterwards receive me into the glories of heaven!
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Whom have I in heaven but you? And I desire no one on earth as much as you!
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My health fails; my spirits droop, yet God remains! He is the strength of my heart; he is mine forever!
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But those refusing to worship God will perish, for he destroys those serving other gods.
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But as for me, I get as close to him as I can! I have chosen him, and I will tell everyone about the wonderful ways he rescues me.
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