Psalms 73:17-28

¹⁷Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.

¹⁸Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

¹⁹How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.

²⁰As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.

²¹For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,

²²And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

²³And I am continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.

²⁴With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

²⁵Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.

²⁶Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

²⁷For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.

²⁸And I — nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!