Psalms 72:5-20

⁵They are not in the troubles of other men; And they shall not be scourged with other men.

⁶Therefore pride has possessed them; They have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

⁷Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: They have fulfilled their intention.

⁸They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: They have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

⁹They have set their mouth against heaven, And their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

¹⁰Therefore shall my people return hither: And full days shall be found with them.

¹¹And they said, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

¹²Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: They have possessed wealth.

¹³And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, And washed my hands in innocency.

¹⁴For I was plagued all the day, And my reproof was every morning.

¹⁵If I said, I will speak thus; Behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.

¹⁶And I undertook to understand this, But it is too hard for me,

¹⁷Until I go into the sanctuary of God; And so understand the latter end.

¹⁸Surely thou hast appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings: Thou hast cast them down when they were lifted up.

¹⁹How have they become desolate! Suddenly they have failed: they have perished because of their iniquity.

²⁰As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.