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Psalm 073 General Notes
Type of psalm
Psalm 73 is a wisdom psalm. It explains the problem of wicked people who seem to prosper. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/wise and rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil)
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Evil people
Sometimes it seems that wicked people have no problems and everything works for them. Despite this, they will be destroyed. In contrast, the righteous always have God to help them through problems. (See: rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/righteous)
Psalms by Asaph
There are twelve psalms attributed to Asaph; the first one is Psalm 50, which is in Book Two, and the other eleven (Psalm 73–83) are at the beginning of Book Three.