Part 40

19:073:010 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

19:073:011 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

19:073:012 Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

19:073:013 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

19:073:014 For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

19:073:015 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

19:073:016 When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

19:073:017 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

19:073:018 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

19:073:019 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

19:073:020 As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

19:073:021 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

19:073:022 So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

19:073:023 Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

19:073:024 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

19:073:025 Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

19:073:026 My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

19:073:027 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

19:073:028 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.

19:074:001 O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

19:074:002 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.

19:074:003 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

19:074:004 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

19:074:005 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.

19:074:006 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

19:074:007 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

19:074:008 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

19:074:009 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.