Psalm 73:7-24

English Standard Version

⁷Their ^(A)eyes swell out through fatness;
    their hearts overflow with follies.
⁸They scoff and ^(B)speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.
⁹They set their mouths against the heavens,
    and their tongue struts through the earth.
¹⁰Therefore his people turn back to them,
    and find ^(C)no fault in them.^[a]
¹¹And they say, ^(D)“How can God know?
    Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
¹²Behold, these are the wicked;
    always at ease, they ^(E)increase in riches.
¹³All in vain have I ^(F)kept my heart clean
    and ^(G)washed my hands in innocence.
¹⁴For all the day long I have been ^(H)stricken
    and ^(I)rebuked ^(J)every morning.
¹⁵If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
    I would have betrayed ^(K)the generation of your children.

¹⁶But when I thought how to understand this,
it seemed to me ^(L)a wearisome task,
¹⁷until I went into ^(M)the sanctuary of God;
then I discerned their ^(N)end.

¹⁸Truly you set them in ^(O)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.
¹⁹How they are destroyed ^(P)in a moment,
    swept away utterly by ^(Q)terrors!
²⁰Like ^(R)a dream when one awakes,
    O Lord, when ^(S)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
²¹When my soul was embittered,
    when I was pricked in heart,
²²I was ^(T)brutish and ignorant;
    I was like ^(U)a beast toward you.

²³Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you ^(V)hold my right hand.
²⁴You ^(W)guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will ^(X)receive me to glory.