Psalms 73
HALLPsalms 73:4
There are no bands in their death.
There is neither pangs of body, nor remorse and terror of soul, in their death.
Psalms 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness.
They are pampered with the delicacies and pleasures of the world: they are full fed, and too well-liking. LXXIII. 10, 11. Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they say, How doth God know? Therefore God’s own people and dear children come to this pass, seeing that they are exercised with store of afflictions while the wicked prosper, as to say, Doth the God of Heaven take notice of these things, &c.?
Psalms 73:15
If I say, I will speak thus: behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
If I should yield to these weak thoughts, surely I should do wrong to the happy estate of thy faithful ones.
Psalms 73:16
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
When I looked into the ground of this complaint, I found it was too deep for me, by my own natural discourse, to search into;
Psalms 73:17
Until I went into the sanctuary of God.
Until I betook myself to inquire into the holy will of my God, revealed by his prophets.
Psalms 73:18
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places.
Surely thou hast so contrived it, that these wicked men, howsoever their places be high, yet they are slippery, and such as they shall never be able to hold their feet in, but must needs fall down into everlasting perdition.
Psalms 73:20
So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
So, O Lord, when thou stirrest up thyself to execute judgment, thou shalt show how little thou reckonest of this vain fancy, or dream, of the wicked man’s prosperity.
Psalms 73:22
So ignorant I was, as a beast before thee.
So ignorant was I, and so brutish in my misconceits of these prosperous conditions of wicked men.
Psalms 73:23
Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
Notwithstanding, thou hast not taken advantage of my infirmities, but renewest thy favours upon me continually; and keepest both my heart and my steps aright with thee; and hast, by thy mighty power, upheld me from miscarrying under this temptation.