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Psalms Chapter 73 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 73:1

Surely God is good to Israel, `Even' to such as are pure in heart.
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BBE Psalms 73:1

Truly, God is good to Israel, even to such as are clean in heart.
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DARBY Psalms 73:1

{A Psalm of Asaph.} Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.
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KJV Psalms 73:1

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
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WBT Psalms 73:1

A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
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WEB Psalms 73:1

> Surely God is good to Israel, To those who are pure in heart.
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YLT Psalms 73:1

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel `is' God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,
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Psalms 73 : 1 Bible Verse Songs

Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Truly God is good to Israel; i.e. verily, in spite of appearances to the contrary, which had for a time made the writer doubt. It is suggested that the triumph of Absalom may have been the circumstance that shook Asaph's faith. Even to such as are of a clean heart; i.e. to the pious in Israel, who are the true Israel. God is really on their side, though he may seem for a time to favour the wicked. (On the need of a pure heart, see Psalm 24:4.)

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(1) Truly.--See Note, Psalm 62:2. This particle often, like the Latin at, introduces a rejoinder to some supposed statement.Dryden's lines express the feeling of this opening--"Yet sure the gods are good! I would fain think so,If they would give me leave!But virtue in distress, and vice in triumph,Make atheists of mankind."The question arises whether the second clause of the verse limits, or only repeats, the first. No doubt in theory God was understood to be good to Israel generally, but the very subject of the psalm seems to require a limitation here. The poet sees that a moral correspondence with their profession is necessary, even in the chosen people--the truth which St. Paul stated with such insistance, "For they are not all Israel which are of Israel."