Psalms 73:13
In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
In Context
12But God is our king before all ages. He has wrought salvation in the midst of the earth.
Cross References
Job 9:27If I say: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
Job 9:31yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
Job 34:9For he has said, “Man will not please God, even if he should travel with him.”
Psalms 24:4May all those who act unjustly over nothing be confounded. O Lord, demonstrate your ways to me, and teach me your paths.
Psalms 51:10But I, like a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God unto eternity, and forever and ever.
Hebrews 10:19And so, brothers, have faith in the entrance into the Holy of Holies by the blood of Christ,
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:2-15
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7… Read the whole commentary →