Psalm 73:12-19

God Is My Strength and Portion Forever

12 Behold, these are the wicked;
always at ease, they o increase in riches.
 13 All in vain have I p kept my heart clean
and q washed my hands in innocence.
 14 For all the day long I have been h stricken
and r rebuked s every morning.
 15 If I had said, "I will speak thus,"
I would have betrayed t the generation of your children.

16 But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me u a wearisome task,
 17 until I went into v the sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their w end.

18 Truly you set them in x slippery places;
you make them fall to ruin.
 19 How they are destroyed y in a moment,
swept away utterly by z terrors!

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 73:3
    For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 73:1
    Book Three Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
    Job 34:9
    For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.
  3. Cross References
    Psalms 26:6
    I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord.
  4. Cross References
    Psalms 73:5
    They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
  5. Cross References
    Revelation 3:19
    Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.
  6. Cross References
    Psalms 101:8
    Morning by morning I will destroy all the wicked in the land, cutting off all the evildoers from the city of the Lord.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 14:5
    There they are in great terror, for God is with the generation of the righteous.
  8. Cross References
    Ecclesiastes 8:17
    Then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.
  9. Cross References
    Psalms 20:2
    May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion!
  10. Cross References
    Psalms 37:38
    But transgressors shall be altogether destroyed; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.
  11. Cross References
    Psalms 35:6
    Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
  12. Cross References
    Numbers 16:21
    "Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment."
  13. Cross References
    Job 18:11
    Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
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