Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. (Ps. 73:25–26) Psalm 73 begins with a statement of simple truth: “Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart” (v. 1). A parallelism is at work here, as is common in Hebrew poetry. “Those who are pure in heart” is a qualification or amplification of “Israel.” God’s true people
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