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Psalm 73

¹Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
²But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
³For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
⁴For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.
⁵They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.
⁶Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
⁷Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
⁸They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
⁹They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
¹⁰Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
¹¹And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
¹²Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.
¹³Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
¹⁴For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
¹⁵If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
¹⁶When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
¹⁷Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
¹⁸Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
¹⁹How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
²⁰As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
²¹Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.
²²So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
²³Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
²⁴Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
²⁵Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
²⁶My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
²⁷For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.
²⁸But 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.

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
⁸Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
⁹Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
¹⁰Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
¹²They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
¹³They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
¹⁴Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
¹⁶Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
¹⁷How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
¹⁸They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
¹⁹God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
²⁰His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
²⁹Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
³⁰That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
³¹Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
³²Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
³³The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

15Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
²Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
³But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
⁴For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
⁵But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
⁶And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
⁷Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
⁸This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
⁹But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
¹⁰And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
¹¹Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
¹²Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
¹³But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
¹⁴Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
¹⁵Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable.
¹⁶And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
¹⁷Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
¹⁸But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.
¹⁹For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
²⁰These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.