Psalm 73b v1-6 & 16-18 & 24-28 of 28 "As for me, my steps were slipping" To the tune Regent Square.

Sing Psalms
Psalm 73b v1-6 & 16-18 & 24-28 of 28
"Surely God is good to Isr’el and to those whose hearts are pure."
Tune: Regent Square
Falkirk Free Church

One suggestion for the change of outlook is seeing the sheets made of the 250 censers of those destroyed in Korah's rebellion. (Numbers 16)

Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

36 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, 37 “Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter the fire away from the camp; for they are holy, 38 even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

39 Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers which those who were burned had offered; and they beat them out for a covering of the altar, 40 to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger who isn’t of the offspring of Aaron, would come near to burn incense before Yahweh, that he not be as Korah and as his company; as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.

41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

PSALM 73 (b) 8 7 8 7 8 7

1 Surely God is good to Isr’el
and to those whose hearts are pure.
2 As for me, my steps were slipping,
and my foothold was unsure.
3 For the arrogant I envied
as I saw them live secure.

4 They are not beset by struggles;
they are healthy, fit and strong—
5 Undisturbed by such diseases
as to human life belong.
6 So they clothe themselves with violence;
greed and pride their necks adorn.

7 From their callous hearts comes evil,
from their minds, great wickedness.
8 They deride and speak with malice;
bold, they threaten to oppress.
9 For their mouths lay claim to heaven,
and their tongues the earth possess.

10 So their people, turning to them,
praise the wicked to the sky,
11 Saying, “How can God control us?
Are we known to God Most High?”
12 Thus the wicked grow in riches,
all anxiety laid by.

13 Have I kept my heart for nothing,
washed my hands in innocence?
14 All day long your plagues are on me;
daily are my pains intense.
15 If I spoke thus, then your children
would have suffered great offence.

16 When I tried to understand this,
it was all too hard for me
17 Till I came into God’s temple—
then I saw their destiny;
18 For on slippery ground you place them,
and destroy them utterly.

19 How they’re shattered in a moment,
swept away by sudden fear!
20 As a dream when one awakens,
so, O Lord, when you appear,
You will mock their aspirations,
and their hopes will disappear.

21 When my spirit was embittered
and my heart with grief brought low,
22 Like a beast I was before you—
dull, in understanding slow.
23 Yet, O Lord, you hold my right hand;
with you I will always go.

24 To your glory you will bring me
with your counsel as my guide.
25 I have none but you in heaven;
all on earth I lay aside.
26 Flesh and heart may fail, but ever
God my portion will abide.

27 Those far off from you will perish;
you give them their due reward.
28 As for me, it is a blessing
to be near the Sovereign LORD.
I have made my God my refuge;
all your deeds I will record.