Psalms 73

Treated in 13 passages across the library.

  • 73:24 Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel, And afterward receive me to glory. 3
  • 73:25 Whom have I in heaven [but thee]? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. 2
  • 73:28 But it is good for me to draw near unto God: I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge, That I may tell of all thy works. 2
  • 73:1 Surely God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure in heart. 1
  • 73:4 For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm. 1
  • 73:18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction. 1
  • 73:20 As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image. 1
  • 73:22 So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast before thee. 1
  • 73:26 My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever. 1

American Standard Version

  1. Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards · Jonathan Edwards

    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God cites Psalm lxxiii. 18

    …ion’s coming upon them, being represented by their foot’s sliding. The same is expressed, Psalm lxxiii. 18: “Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; thou castedst them down into destruction…

  2. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Of love to God cites Psalm lxxiii. 25

    …love God above all other objects. “ There is nothing on earth that I desire beside thee” (Psalm lxxiii. 25). God is the quintessence of all good things, He is superlatively good. The soul seeing a…

  3. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    An exhortation to love God cites Psalm lxxiii. 26

    …ut it has wings, it will soon fly away. But if you love God, He is “ a portion for ever” (Psalm lxxiii. 26). As He is called a Sun for comfort, so a Rock for eternity; He abides for ever. Thus we …

  4. A Short and Easy Method of Prayer · Jeanne Guyon

    Prayer as Noble Action cites Ps. lxxiii. 28

    …r. vi. 17). “It is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God” (Ps. lxxiii. 28). What is this “drawing near”? It is the beginning of union. Union has its beginning, its…

  5. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    Human Life a Dream cites Ps. 73:20

    …e as a dream when one awaketh; so shalt thou make their image to vanish out of the city.” Ps. 73:20. 1. Anyone that considers the foregoing verses will easily observe that the Psalmist is s…

  6. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Psa 73: 24

    …abitation. Acts 17: 26. [2] A spiritual guidance. ‘Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel.’ Psa 73: 24. As Israel had a pillar of fire to go before them, so God guides us with the oracles of h…

  7. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.6 The Sixth Commandment cites Psa 73: 25

    …piritual, moves upwards, it contemplates God and glory. ‘Whom have I in heaven but thee?’ Psa 73: 25. The motion of the soul is upward; but sin has put a wrong bias upon it, and made it move…

  8. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Tenth Stage cites Psa. 73:4

    …th is firm; they are not troubled as other men, neither are they plagued like other men.” Psa. 73:4,5. These troubles and distresses that you go through in these waters, are no sign that Go…

  9. The Cheque Book of the Bank of Faith · Charles H. Spurgeon

    The Month of December cites Ps. 73:24

    …ANGER IN HEAVEN "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory" Ps. 73:24 From day to day and from year to year my faith believes in the wisdom and love of God, an…

  10. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Why all things work for good cites Psalm lxxiii. 1

    …hall we be discontented? (7). See here that Scripture fulfilled, “God is good to Israel” (Psalm lxxiii. 1). When we look upon adverse providences, and see the Lord covering His people with ashes,…

  11. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    July cites Psalm 73:22

    …heir fulfilment. July 28 “So foolish was I, and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee.” (Psalm 73:22) Remember this is the confession of the man after God's own heart; and in telling us his …

  12. Morning by Morning · Charles H. Spurgeon

    September cites Psalm 73:24

    September 1 “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.” (Psalm 73:24) The Psalmist felt his need of divine guidance. He had just been discovering the foolishn…

  13. Our Daily Walk · Frederick Brotherton Meyer

    March cites Psa 73:28

    …. AMEN. March 3 THE VIEWPOINT OF THE SANCTUARY “It is good for me to draw near to God.”-- Psa 73:28. THE GOOD Asaph was greatly troubled about the prosperity of the wicked of his time. He r…