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Psalm 72 (73) Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 73 · About the recordings

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Psalm 72 in DRB = Psalm 73 in WEB.

DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
73:1 A Psalm by Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2 But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone. My steps had nearly slipped.
3 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
73:3 For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4 For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
73:4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.
5 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
73:5 They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
73:6 Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
7 Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
73:7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
8 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
73:8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
9 They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
73:9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
10 Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
73:10 Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.
11 And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
73:11 They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12 Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
73:12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
73:13 Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
14 And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
73:14 For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.
15 If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
73:15 If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16 I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
73:16 When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
17 Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
73:17 until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
18 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
73:18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.
19 How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
73:19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
20 As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
73:20 As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
21 For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
73:21 For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.
22 And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
73:22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
23 I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
73:23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
24 Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
73:24 You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
25 For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
73:25 Whom do I have in heaven? There is no one on earth whom I desire besides you.
26 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.
73:26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27 For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
73:27 For, behold, those who are far from you shall perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
28 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.
73:28 But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
Cross references (28)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in DRB.

  1. 1 Matthew 5:8; Psalm 51:10; Psalm 84:11; Luke 12:32; James 4:8
  2. 2 Psalm 94:18; 1 Samuel 2:9; Psalm 116:8; Psalm 38:16; Psalm 17:5
  3. 3 Job 21:7; Jeremiah 12:1; Psalm 37:7; Proverbs 23:17; Psalm 37:1
  4. 4 Job 21:23–24; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Luke 16:22; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Psalm 17:14
  5. 5 Psalm 73:12; Job 21:9; Revelation 3:19; Jeremiah 12:1–2; Job 21:6
  6. 6 Psalm 109:18; 1 Peter 5:5; Daniel 4:30; Proverbs 1:9; Judges 8:26
  7. 7 Job 15:27; Jeremiah 5:28; Psalm 17:10; Psalm 73:12; 1 Samuel 25:36
  8. 8 Jude 16; Psalm 17:10; Psalm 10:2; 2 Peter 2:18; Proverbs 30:13–14
  9. 9 Revelation 13:6; James 3:6; Exodus 5:2; Daniel 7:25; 2 Chronicles 32:15
  10. 10 Psalm 75:8
  11. 11 Hosea 7:2; Zephaniah 1:12; Psalm 94:7; Psalm 139:1–6; Psalm 44:21
  12. 12 Psalm 52:7; Hosea 12:7–8; Jeremiah 5:28; James 5:1–3; Psalm 17:14
  13. 13 Psalm 26:6; Job 21:15; Job 34:9; James 4:8; Malachi 3:14
  14. 14 Hebrews 12:5; Psalm 94:12; Amos 3:2; Jeremiah 15:18; Job 7:3–4
  15. 15 Matthew 18:6–7; Romans 14:21; Psalm 24:6; Romans 14:15; Malachi 2:8
  16. 16 Ecclesiastes 8:17; John 16:18–19; Proverbs 30:2–3; Romans 11:33; Psalm 97:2
  17. 17 Psalm 77:13; Luke 12:20; Ecclesiastes 8:12–13; Psalm 27:4; Psalm 63:2
  18. 18 Jeremiah 23:12; Psalm 35:6; Deuteronomy 32:35; Psalm 55:23; 2 Thessalonians 1:9
  19. 19 Isaiah 47:11; Proverbs 28:1; Daniel 5:6; Revelation 18:10; Job 20:5
  20. 20 Job 20:8; Psalm 78:65; Psalm 90:5; Psalm 39:6; Isaiah 29:7–8
  21. 21 Psalm 73:3; Psalm 37:7; Lamentations 3:13; Job 16:13; Psalm 37:1
  22. 22 Ecclesiastes 3:18; Psalm 92:6; Isaiah 1:3; Psalm 49:10; Psalm 32:9
  23. 23 Isaiah 41:13; Psalm 63:8; Matthew 28:20; Psalm 16:8; Hebrews 13:5
  24. 24 Psalm 32:8; Isaiah 58:11; Proverbs 3:5–6; Isaiah 48:17; Psalm 48:14
  25. 25 Philippians 3:8; Psalm 16:2; Psalm 63:3; Psalm 16:5; Isaiah 26:8–9
  26. 26 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Isaiah 40:29–31; Psalm 138:3; Psalm 18:2; 2 Corinthians 4:8–10
  27. 27 James 4:4; Psalm 119:155; Exodus 34:15; Numbers 15:39; Psalm 106:39
  28. 28 James 4:8; Psalm 40:5; Hebrews 10:19–22; Lamentations 3:25–26; Psalm 65:4

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 73.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LXXII)

    indeed this Psalm's title is fore-noted: but things are spoken of therein which could not apply to that Salomon king of Israel after the flesh, according to those things which holy Scripture speaketh concerning him: but they can most pertinently apply to the Lord Christ.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 73:9 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book IV, Chapters VIII–XII)

    But whither ascend ye, when ye are on high, and set your mouth against the heavens? Descend that ye may ascend, and ascend to God.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  3. Quotes verse 73:28 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book X, Chapters 4–6)

    … and since works of mercy have no other object than the relief of distress or the conferring of happiness, and since there is no happiness apart from that good of which it is said, "It is good for me to be very near to God," it follows that the whole redeemed city, that is to say, the congregation or community …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  4. Quotes verse 73:28 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XII, Chapters 7–9)

    … love of God is shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them." And that not only of men, but primarily and principally of angels it is true, as it is written, "It is good to draw near to God." And those who have this good in common, have, both with Him to whom they …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)