Psalm 73: Wrestling With Faith And Trusting In God’s Sovereignty

Psalm 73: Wrestling With Faith And Trusting In God’s Sovereignty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Psalm 73:25 Who has I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

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

Psalm 73:28 But 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.

Psalm 74: From Lament To Hope In God’s Redeeming Power

Psalm 74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us forever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Psalm 74:13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou breakest the heads ofthe dragons in the waters.

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

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

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

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

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

Psalm 74:19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the Wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor forever.

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

Psalm 74:21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name

Psalm 74:22 Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Psalm 74:23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.

Psalm 75: Divine Judgment, Humility, And The Glory Of God

Psalm 75:1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare

Psalm 75:2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

Psalm 75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

Psalm 75:4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Psalm 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

Psalm 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Psalm 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

Psalm 75:9 But I will declare forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.