Psalms 73:1-9 ▼

1 A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart.

2 And as for me, at a little stretching out of my feet, my steps had nearly poured out.

3 For I was envious of those boasting when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

4 For there are no pangs until their death, and their body is fat.

5 They are not in the trouble of mankind, and with men they are not are they plagued.

6 Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence is a covering for them.

7 Their eye has bulged out from fat, the imaginations of their heart overflow.

8 They scoff and speak with malice; from a high place they speak oppression.

9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.