Chapter — Douay-Rheims

Psalms 72

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.

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6.

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.

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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?

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.

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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.

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.

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