15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.
16 When I thought how to understand this,
It was [a]too painful for me—
17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their (A)end.

18 Surely (B)You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
19 Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes,
So, Lord, when You awake,
You shall despise their image.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 73:16 troublesome in my eyes

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