Psalms 73:4-28 ▼

4 For there are no pangs until their death, and their body is fat.

5 They are not in the trouble of mankind, and with men they are not are they plagued.

6 Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence is a covering for them.

7 Their eye has bulged out from fat, the imaginations of their heart overflow.

8 They scoff and speak with malice; from a high place they speak oppression.

9 They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

10 Therefore his people turn here, and waters of fullness are wrung out for them.

11 And they say, “How can God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?”

12 Behold, these are the wicked, and at ease always, they have increased in wealth.

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

14 For I have been stricken all the day, and chastened in the morning.

15 If I had said, “I will speak like this,” behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your sons.

16 And I thought to know this—it was toil in my eyes—

17 until I came to the sanctuary of God, and discerned their end.

18 Surely You set them on slick ground; You make them fall to destruction.

19 How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are swept away completely by terrors.

20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, in rousing Yourself, You shall despise their image.

21 For my heart had grown sour, and my kidneys pierce themselves.

22 And I was brutish and could not know; I was a beast before You.

23 And I am always with You; You hold my right hand.

24 May You lead me with Your counsel, and afterward You will receive me in glory!

25 Who is unto me in the heavens? And besides You I do not take delight on the earth.

26 My flesh and my heart may be consumed, the rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

27 For behold, those far from You will perish. You destroy everyone prostituting himself from You!

28 But I—the nearness of God is good for me—I have placed my refuge in the Lord YHWH, to recount all Your works.