73:16 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
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73:17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
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73:18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
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73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
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73:20 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
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73:21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
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73:22 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
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73:23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
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73:24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
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73:25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
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73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
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73:27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
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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.
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Chapter 74
74:1 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
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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.
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74:3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
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74:4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
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74:5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
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74:6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
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74:8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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74:9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
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74:10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
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74:11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.
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