Psalms 73:12-22

12Behold, such are the wicked— always at ease and amassing wealth.

13Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.

14For all day I have been stricken, my chastisement comes every morning.

15If I had said: “I will speak thus,” surely I would have betrayed a generation of Your children.

16But when I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling in my eyes—

17until I entered the Sanctuary of God, and perceived their end.

18Surely You put them in slippery places. You hurled them down to destruction.

19How suddenly they became a ruin— terminated, consumed by terrors.

20Like a dream when one awakes, thus when You arise, my Lord, You will despise their form.

21When my heart was embittered and I was pierced in my heart,

22I was brutish and ignorant. I was like a beast before You.