Welcome to the Psalms with me James Dellingpole and today we're going to be doing Psalm 73

and I'm using the Miles Coverdale translation for the book of common prayer.

Truly God is loving unto Israel even unto such as are of a clean heart.

Nevertheless, my feet were almost gone.

My treadings had well nigh slipped.

And why?

I was grieved at the wicked.

I do also see the ungodly in such prosperity, for they are in no

peril of death, but are lusty and strong. They come in no misfortune like other folk,

neither are they plagued like other men, and this is the cause that they are so holden with pride and overwhelmed with cruelty.

Their eyes swell with fatness, and they do even what they lust.

They corrupt other, and speak of wicked blasphemy.

Their talking is against the most high, for they stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven,

and their tongue goeth through the world.

Therefore fall the people unto them, and thereout suck they no small advantage.

Tush, say they, how should God perceive it? Is their knowledge in the most high?

Lo, these are the ungodly. These prosper in the world, and these have riches in possession.

And I said, Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

All the day long have I been punished, and chastened every morning, yea, and I had almost said, even as they, but lo, then I should have condemned the generation of thy children.

Then thought I to understand this, but it was too hard for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I the end of these men.

Namely, how thou dost set them in slippery places, and casteth them down and destroyest them.

Oh, how suddenly do they consume, perish, and come to a fearful end.

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