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A Psalm of Asaph. Surely G-d is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart

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But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped

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For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked

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For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound

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In the trouble of man they are not; neither are they plagued like men

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Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment

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Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart

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They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression; they speak as if there were none on high

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They have set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth

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Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them

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And they say: 'How doth G-d know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

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Behold, such are the wicked; and they that are always at ease increase riches

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Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency

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For all the day have I been plagued, and my chastisement came every morning

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If I had said: 'I will speak thus', behold, I had been faithless to the generation of Thy children

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And when I pondered how I might know this, it was wearisome in mine eyes

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Until I entered into the sanctuary of G-d, and considered their end

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Surely Thou settest them in slippery places; Thou hurlest them down to utter ruin

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How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are wholly consumed by terrors

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As a dream when one awaketh, so, O L-rd, when Thou arousest Thyself, Thou wilt despise their semblance

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For my heart was in a ferment, and I was pricked in my reins

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But I was brutish, and ignorant; I was as a beast before Thee

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Nevertheless I am continually with Thee; Thou holdest my right hand

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Thou wilt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me with glory

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Whom have I in heaven but Thee? And beside Thee I desire none upon earth

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My flesh and my heart faileth; but G-d is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever

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For, lo, they that go far from Thee shall perish; Thou dost destroy all them that go astray from Thee

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But as for me, the nearness of G-d is my good; I have made the L-rd GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all Thy works