Psalms 73:23-26

23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you ¹hold my right hand.

24 You ²guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will ³receive me to glory.

25 ⁴Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

26 ⁵My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is ⁶the strength^[a] of my heart and my ⁷portion ⁸forever.

Psalms 73:23-26 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 73

\\<>\\. It seems by the title that Asaph was the penman of this psalm, as it is certain that he was a composer of psalms and hymns; see 2Ch 29:30, though it may be rendered, "a psalm for Asaph", or "unto Asaph" {a}; and might have David for its author, as some think, who, having penned it, sent it to Asaph, to be made use of by him in public service; see 1Ch 16:7, and so the Targum paraphrases it, ``a song by the hands of Asaph;'' the occasion of it was a temptation the psalmist fell into, through the prosperity of the wicked, and the afflictions of the righteous, to think there was nothing in religion, that it was a vain and useless thing; under which he continued until he went into the house of God, and was taught better; when he acknowledged his stupidity and folly, and penned this psalm, to prevent others falling into the same snare, and to set forth the goodness of God to his people, with which it begins.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 63:8; [Psalms 41:12]
• 2. Psalms 32:8
• 3. See Psalms 49:15
• 4. Psalms 16:2; [Philippians 3:8]
• 5. Psalms 40:12; See Psalms 84:2
• 6. Psalms 18:2
• 7. See Psalms 16:5
• 8. [Daniel 12:3]

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew rock