1A psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those whose minds are pure.
2But I was stumbling, my feet were starting to slide,
3because I was jealous of self-important people—I saw how well the wicked were doing.
4They don't ever seem to get sick; they are strong and healthy.
5They don't have problems like other people; they don't get hit by disasters like everybody else.
6They wear their pride like a necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.
7Their eyes bulge out because they're so fat; their minds are full of selfish vanity.
8They mock people, and speak maliciously; they arrogantly threaten cruelty.
9They talk irreverently against heaven above, and defame people here on earth.
10As a result people turn to them and drink in everything they say.
11“God won't find out,” they say. “The Most High doesn't even know what's going on!”
12Look at these wicked people! They don't have a care in the world, and they're always making money!
13It's been pointless to keep my mind pure and my hands clean.
14I'm cursed with suffering all day long; every morning I'm punished.
15If I'd talked like this to others, I would have betrayed your people.
16So I thought about it and tried to understand, but it looked like a lot of hard work to me—
17until I went into God's Temple. Then I understood what happens to the wicked in the end.
18For you send them on a slippery path; you throw them down to destruction.
19How quickly they're destroyed! They come to a terrifying end.
20Like waking up from a dream, Lord—when you get up you will forget all about them!
21At that time my thoughts were bitter. I felt like I had been stabbed.
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Psalms 73
Psalms 73:1-21