Psalms 73:14 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Psalms 73:1–14
• Psalms 73:1–28

Read Psalms 73:14 with 73:1–14 and 73:1–28. Read alone, “For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every…” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 73:1–14, the individual voice carries the movement “Envy at the apparent ease of wrongdoers” as part of “Envy, sanctuary insight, and the nearness of God.” Its wisdom-lament form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Psalms 73:1–14 opens Psalm 73 with “Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart” and establishes the individual voice and “Envy at the apparent ease of wrongdoers” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Psalm 73 opens Book III by confronting the prosperity of the wicked after Psalm 72 closes Book II with an ideal king who protects needy people, sharpening the collection's justice question. Within that relationship, Psalm 73:14 supplies a reason or consequence through “For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning” and must be read with the claim it supports.