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1 - A Psalm of Asaph. Only--good to Israel <FI>is<Fi> God, to the clean of heart. And I--as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

2 - As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

3 - The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,

4 - And their might <FI>is<Fi> firm.

5 - In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.

6 - Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

7 - Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

8 - They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

9 - They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

10 - Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

11 - And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

12 - Lo, these <FI>are<Fi> the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

13 - Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

14 - And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof <FI>is<Fi> every morning.

15 - If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

16 - And I think to know this, Perverseness it <FI>is<Fi> in mine eyes,

17 - Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

18 - Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

19 - How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended--consumed from terrors.

20 - As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

21 - For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

22 - And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

23 - And I <FI>am<Fi> continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.

24 - With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

25 - Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

26 - Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion <FI>is<Fi> God to the age.

27 - For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

28 - And I--nearness of God to me <FI>is<Fi> good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!