Affliction in this world is recompensed in the end.
the. 9. key.
The royal prophet, first professing the vnspeakable goodnes of God, 2. in
the person of the weake complaineth, that the wicked prosper, and the iust are afflicted. 15.
reprehendeth the murmuration, for though we can not comprehend the secrete iudgements of God. 18.
yet they are most iust. 25. So with desire to rest in God, he promiseth euer to praise him.
1 A Psalme to Asaph.
HOW good is God to Israel, to them, that are of a right hart!
2 But my feete were almost moued, my steppes almost slipped.
3 Because I haue had zele vpon the wicked, seing the peace of sinners.
4 Because there is no respect to their death: and stabilitie in ther plague.
5 In the labours of men they are not, and with men they shal not be scourged.
6 Therfore hath pride helde them, they are couered with their iniquitie and impietie.
7 Their iniquitie hath procedeth as it were of fatte: they haue passed into the affection of the hart.
8 They haue thought, and haue spoken wickednes they haue spoken iniquitie on high.
9 They haue sette their mouth vnto heauen: ad their tongue hath passed in the earth.
10 Therfore wil my people returne here: and ful daies shal be found in them.
11 And they haue saide: How doth God know, and is there knowledge in the highest?
12 Loe the sinners them selues, and they that abounde in the world, haue obtained riches.
13 And I saide: Then haue I iustified my hart without cause, and haue washed my handes amongst innocentes:
14 And haue bene scourged al the day, and my chastising in the morninges.
15 If I saide: I wil speake this: behold I reproued the nation of thy children.
16 I thought to know this thing, it is labour before me:
17 Vntil I may enter into the sanctuarie of God: and may vnderstand concerning their latter ends.
18 But yet for guiles thou hast put it to them: thou hast cast them downe whiles they were eleuated.
19 How are they brought into desolation, they haue failed sodanely: they haue perished for their iniquitie.
20 As the dreame of them that rise ô Lord, in thy citie thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
21 Because my hart is inflamed, and my reynes are changed:
22 And I am brought to nothing, and knew not.
23 As a beast am I become with thee: and I alwaies with thee.
24 Thou hast helde my right hand: and in thy wil thou hast conducted me, and with glorie thou hast receiued me.
25 For what is to me in heauen? and besides thee what would I vpon the earth?
26 My flesh hath fainted, and my hart: God of my hart, and God my portion for euer.
27 For behold, they that make them selues farre from thee, shal perish: thou hast destroyed al, that fornicate from thee.
28 But it is good for me to cleaue to God: to put my hope in our Lord God:
That I may shew forth al thy prayses, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.