{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/73","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:59:20.762Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":73,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":72,"nextChapter":74,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":28},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart! "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight: "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth? "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For 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. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"But 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. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 73 (DRB)","markdown":"[Psalms 73](https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/73)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/psalms/73 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}