Mar 9, 2019
12 This is what
the wicked are like—
always free of care, they go on amassing
wealth.
13 Surely in
vain I have kept my heart pure
and have washed my hands in
innocence.
14 All day long I have been
afflicted,
and every morning brings new
punishments.
15 If I had spoken
out like that,
I would have betrayed your
children.
16 When I tried to understand all
this,
it troubled me deeply
17 till I entered the sanctuary of
God;
then I understood their final
destiny.
18 Surely you
place them on slippery ground;
you cast them down to ruin.
19 How suddenly are they
destroyed,
completely swept away by
terrors!
20 They are like a dream when one
awakes;
when you arise, Lord,
you will despise them as
fantasies.
21 When my heart
was grieved
and my spirit embittered,
22 I was senseless and
ignorant;
I was a brute beast before
you.
23 Yet I am always
with you;
you hold me by my right hand.
24 You guide me with your
counsel,
and afterward you will take me into
glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I desire besides
you.
26 My flesh and my heart may
fail,
but God is the strength of my
heart
and my portion forever.
27 Those who are
far from you will perish;
you destroy all who are unfaithful to
you.
28 But as for me, it is good to be near
God.
I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge;
I will tell of all your deeds.