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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
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section: 92 of 159
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 92. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/92/"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 92. Psalm 73

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[¶0] PART THIRD

[¶1] A Psalm of Asaph

[¶2] 1 Yet God is good to Israel, To those who are right in heart.

[¶3] 2 As for me, wellnigh slipped had my feet, My steps were almost gone:

[¶4] 3 For I was envious at the foolish, On seeing the prosperity of the ungodly.

[¶5] 4 For there are no bands to their death, And vigorous is their strength.

[¶6] 5 In the [common] trouble of man they are not; And with other men they are not scourged.

[¶7] 6 Therefore encompass them as a chain doth pride; Covered them hath the raiment of violence.

[¶8] 7 Their eye projecteth through fatness; They have passed beyond the thoughts of their heart.

[¶9] 8 They break forth, and talk wickedly of extortion: From on high do they speak.

[¶10] 9 They have set against the heaven their mouth, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

[¶11] 10 On this account his people will return hither, And waters of a full cup will be wrung out to them.

[¶12] 11 And they say, “How doth God know? “ “And is there knowledge in the Most High?“

[¶13] 12 Behold these are the ungodly, and [yet] they are in quiet for ever: They heap up riches.

[¶14] 13 Surely in vain I have purified my heart, And washed every day my hands:

[¶15] 14 And I have been scourged every day, And my chastisement [has been] every morning.

[¶16] 15 If I have said, “I will speak thus,” Behold! the generation of thy children: I have transgressed.

[¶17] 16 And although I applied my mind to know this, A pain fill thing it was in mine eyes,

[¶18] 17 Until I entered into the sanctuaries of God, And understood their end.

[¶19] 18 Surely in slippery places thou hast set them; Thou shalt east them down into destructions.

[¶20] 19 How have they been destroyed as in a moment! They have perished, they have been consumed with terrors.

[¶21] 20 As it were a dream after a man is awakened; O Lord! in awaking, their image thou wilt render contemptible.

[¶22] 21 For in a ferment was my heart, And in my reins I was pierced.

[¶23] 22 And I myself [was] foolish and knew not any thing; As the beasts have I been before thee.

[¶24] 23 Nevertheless I have been continually with thee; Thou hast held my right hand.

[¶25] 24 With thy counsel thou shalt guide me; And at length to glory thou shalt take me.

[¶26] 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee? And another with time I have not desired on the earth.

[¶27] 26 Failed have my flesh and my heart; But the strength of my heart and my portion is God for ever.

[¶28] 27 For lo! those who depart from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed every one who goeth a whoring from thee.

[¶29] 28 As for me, to draw near to God is good for me: I have put in the Lord Jehovah my trust, That I may tell of all thy works.