Psalms 72:12-19

¹²Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

¹³And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

¹⁴And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

¹⁵If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

¹⁶I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:

¹⁷Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

¹⁸But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

¹⁹How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.