KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 73:2–3
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Psalms 73:2
2But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
2But as for mee, my feete were almost gone: my steps had well-nigh slipt.
Psalms 73:3
3For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
3*For I was enuious at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperity of the wicked.
- Iob. 21.7. psal.37.1. Ierem.12.1
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 73:2
However; introducing a contrast with what precedes.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Nearly; well nigh; for the greatest part.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Departed, went away, passed, or advanced to another place or condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Movements or paces of the feet; footsteps, courses, degrees, or stages in going.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
In a good, right, or healthy manner or condition; also a deep source of water, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Near in place, time, or circumstance; almost.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To lose firm footing or move out of a secure place; figuratively, to let something escape or pass away.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 73:3
Feeling envy at another's prosperity or advantage; resentfully desiring what another possesses.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Lacking wisdom or sound judgment; acting without proper regard for truth or what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
prosperity
Advance or gain in any thing good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; success; attainment of the object desired.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 2
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Open the full verse study18When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.
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Open the full verse study9He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.
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Open the full verse study8For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
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Open the full verse study16For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
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Open the full verse study5Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
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Open the full verse study15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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Open the full verse study15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
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Open the full verse study7But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
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Open the full verse study7And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God:
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Open the full verse study23Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:
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Open the full verse study5He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
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Open the full verse study4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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Open the full verse study13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
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Open the full verse study23But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
From verse 3
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Open the full verse study7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Open the full verse study1RIGHTEOUS art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
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Open the full verse study17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
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Open the full verse study7Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
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Open the full verse study1FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
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Open the full verse study1BE not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
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Open the full verse study5Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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Open the full verse study31¶ Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
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