72:19And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen.

72:20The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.

73:1(A Psalm of Asaph.) Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

73:2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

73:3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

73:4For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

73:5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

73:6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

73:7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

73:8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

73:9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

73:10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

73:11And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

73:12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

73:13Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

73:14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

73:15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

73:16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

73:17Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

73:18Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

73:20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

73:21Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

73:23Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

73:24Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

73:25Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

73:26My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

73:27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

73:28But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works.

74:1(Maschil of Asaph.) O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

74:2Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

74:3Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

74:4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

74:5A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

74:6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

74:7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

74:8They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

74:9We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

74:10O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?

74:11Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.

74:12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

74:13Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

74:14Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

74:15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.

74:16The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.

74:17Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

74:18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

74:19O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

74:20Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.