1A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!

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2But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.

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Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, Jeremiah 23:5, Jeremiah 23:6, 1 Chronicles 22:12

3Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.

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Isaiah 32:1, Isaiah 32:1, Psalms 72:12, Psalms 72:14, Psalms 72:12

4For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.

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Isaiah 52:7, Isaiah 52:7, Daniel 9:24, Psalms 96:11, Psalms 96:13

5They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.

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Isaiah 11:4, Isaiah 11:4, Ezekiel 34:15, Ezekiel 34:16, Ezekiel 34:15

6Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

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Psalms 89:36, Psalms 89:37, Psalms 89:36, Psalms 89:37, Psalms 72:17

7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

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Hosea 6:3, Hosea 6:3, Deuteronomy 32:2, Deuteronomy 32:2, 2 Samuel 23:4

8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

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Isaiah 2:4, Isaiah 2:4, Malachi 4:2, Psalms 92:12, Malachi 4:2

9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

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Exodus 23:31, Zechariah 9:10, Exodus 23:31, Zechariah 9:10, Psalms 2:8

10Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

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Isaiah 49:23, Isaiah 49:23, Micah 7:17, Micah 7:17, Psalms 21:8

11And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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Isaiah 60:6, 1 Kings 10:1, Isaiah 49:7, Psalms 68:29, Isaiah 60:6

12Behold these are sinners; and yet, abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

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Psalms 86:9, Isaiah 49:22, Isaiah 49:23, Revelation 11:15, Psalms 86:9

13And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

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Job 29:12, Job 29:12, Psalms 102:17, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18

14And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

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Ezekiel 34:16, Ezekiel 34:16, Matthew 5:3, Psalms 109:31, Matthew 5:3

15If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

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Psalms 116:15, Psalms 116:15, Revelation 19:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:15, 1 Thessalonians 2:16

16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

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1 Kings 10:14, 1 Kings 10:14, Revelation 5:8, Revelation 5:14, Jude 1:25

17Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

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Revelation 7:9, Revelation 7:9, Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 2:3, Job 8:7

18But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

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Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Matthew 1:23, Psalms 89:36

19How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

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Psalms 41:13, Psalms 41:13, Psalms 106:48, Psalms 106:48, 1 Chronicles 29:10

20As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

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Numbers 14:21, Numbers 14:21, Matthew 6:10, Matthew 6:10, Psalms 41:13

21For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:

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2 Samuel 23:1, 2 Samuel 23:1, Luke 24:51, Job 31:40, Jeremiah 51:64

22And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

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23I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.

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24Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.

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25For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?

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26For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

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27For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.

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28But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

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