Psalms 73:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

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  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 No, my sons, the account which is given me, which the Lord's people are sending about, is not good.
  • Ps 14:5 : 5 Then were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the upright.
  • Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed will be his servant; the doings of the Lord will be made clear to the generation which comes after.
  • Ps 24:6 : 6 This is the generation of those whose hearts are turned to you, even to your face, O God of Jacob. (Selah.)
  • Mal 2:8 : 8 But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
  • Matt 18:6-7 : 6 But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea. 7 A curse is on the earth because of trouble! for it is necessary for trouble to come; but unhappy is that man through whom the trouble comes.
  • Rom 14:15 : 15 And if because of food your brother is troubled, then you are no longer going on in the way of love. Do not let your food be destruction to him for whom Christ went into death.
  • Rom 14:21 : 21 It is better not to take meat or wine or to do anything which might be a cause of trouble to your brother.
  • 1 Cor 8:11-13 : 11 And so, through your knowledge, you are the cause of destruction to your brother, for whom Christ underwent death. 12 And in this way, doing evil to the brothers, and causing trouble to those whose faith is feeble, you are sinning against Christ. 13 For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

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  • 18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

  • 15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

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    33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

    34 For fear of the great body of people, or for fear that families might make sport of me, so that I kept quiet, and did not go out of my door;

  • 13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 4 If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand.

  • 17 Take note and give ear to my words; and I will say what I have seen:

  • 20 How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

  • 15 For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.

  • 35 Then I would say what is in my mind without fear of him; for there is no cause of fear in myself.

  • 16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • 21 My heart was made bitter, and I was pained by the bite of grief:

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    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

    28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.

    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

    30 (For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)

  • 21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • 5 As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.

  • 7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

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  • 10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

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    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • 19 Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

  • 7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.

  • 13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

  • 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

  • 24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

  • 20 Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.

  • 2 But as for me, my feet had almost gone from under me; I was near to slipping;

  • 21 These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

  • 14 That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

  • 5 If you make yourselves great against me, using my punishment as an argument against me,

  • 14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • 10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;

  • 10 If, in that very minute, it does evil in my eyes, going against my orders, then my good purpose, which I said I would do for them, will be changed.

  • 9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

  • 11 Though I said in my fear, All men are false.

  • 16 I said, Let them not be glad over me; when my foot is moved, let them not be lifted up with pride against me.

  • 5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

  • 12 For it was not my hater who said evil of me; that would have been no grief to me; it was not one outside the number of my friends who made himself strong against me, or I would have kept myself from him in a secret place;

  • 8 But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears:

  • 28 I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

  • 15 My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;

  • 15 Truly, he will put an end to me; I have no hope; but I will not give way in argument before him;