### Douay Rheims Bible

Psalms 71

## The Book of Psalms

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| # Chapter 72
#### 1 | A psalm for Asaph. How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
#### 2 | But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
#### 3 | Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
#### 4 | For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
#### 5 | They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. B Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
#### 7 | Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
#### 8 | They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
#### 9 | They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
#### 10 | Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
#### 11 | And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
#### 12 | Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
#### 13 | And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
#### 14 | And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
#### 15 | If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
#### 16 | I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
#### 17 | Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
#### 18 | But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
#### 19 | How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
#### 20 | As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
#### 21 | For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
#### 22 | and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
#### 23 | I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.
#### 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.
#### 25 | For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
#### 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.
#### 27 | For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
#### 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.

Psalms 73

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