1A Psalme committed to Asaph. Yet God is good to Israel: euen, to the pure in heart.

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Matthew 5:8, Matthew 5:8, Psalms 51:10, Psalms 51:10, Luke 12:32

2As for me, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well neere slipt.

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Psalms 94:18, Psalms 94:18, 1 Samuel 2:9, 1 Samuel 2:9, Psalms 116:8

3For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.

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Job 21:7, Job 21:7, Psalms 37:7, Jeremiah 12:1, Proverbs 23:17

4For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.

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Job 21:23, Job 21:24, Job 21:23, Job 21:24, Psalms 17:10

5They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

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Psalms 73:12, Job 21:9, Psalms 73:12, Job 21:9, Revelation 3:19

6Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.

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Psalms 109:18, Psalms 109:18, 1 Peter 5:5, 1 Peter 5:5, Judges 8:26

7Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: they haue more then heart can wish.

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Psalms 17:10, Job 15:27, Jeremiah 5:28, Psalms 17:10, Job 15:27

8They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.

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Jude 1:16, Jude 1:16, Psalms 17:10, Psalms 17:10, Psalms 10:2

9They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

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Revelation 13:6, Revelation 13:6, James 3:6, James 3:6, Exodus 5:2

10Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

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Psalms 75:8, Psalms 75:8

11And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?

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Hosea 7:2, Zephaniah 1:12, Hosea 7:2, Zephaniah 1:12, Job 22:13

12Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

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Psalms 52:7, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Jeremiah 12:1, Jeremiah 12:2

13Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

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Psalms 26:6, Job 34:9, Job 21:15, Psalms 26:6, Job 34:9

14For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

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Psalms 94:12, Hebrews 12:5, Psalms 94:12, Hebrews 12:5, Job 7:18

15If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

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Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:7, Malachi 2:8, Matthew 18:6, Matthew 18:7

16Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

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Ecclesiastes 8:17, Ecclesiastes 8:17, Psalms 36:6, John 16:18, John 16:19

17Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.

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Ecclesiastes 8:12, Ecclesiastes 8:13, Luke 12:20, Psalms 27:4, Psalms 77:13

18Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

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Psalms 35:6, Psalms 35:6, Jeremiah 23:12, Jeremiah 23:12, Deuteronomy 32:35

19How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,

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Daniel 5:6, Isaiah 47:11, Proverbs 28:1, Daniel 5:6, Isaiah 47:11

20As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

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Job 20:8, Job 20:8, Psalms 78:65, Psalms 78:65, Isaiah 29:7

21Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

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Psalms 37:7, Psalms 37:7, Job 16:13, Job 16:13, Psalms 73:3

22So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.

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Ecclesiastes 3:18, Ecclesiastes 3:18, Psalms 92:6, Psalms 92:6, Psalms 49:10

23Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

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Isaiah 41:13, Isaiah 41:13, Psalms 63:8, Psalms 63:8, Matthew 28:20

24Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.

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Psalms 32:8, Psalms 32:8, Isaiah 58:11, Isaiah 58:11, Proverbs 3:5

25Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee.

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Philippians 3:8, Philippians 3:8, Psalms 16:2, Psalms 16:2, Psalms 63:3

26My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.

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2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Isaiah 40:29

27For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.

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James 4:4, James 4:4, Psalms 119:155, Psalms 119:155, Exodus 34:15

28As for me, it is good for me to draw neere to God: therefore I haue put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy workes.

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Psalms 40:5, Psalms 40:5, James 4:8, James 4:8, Hebrews 10:19