Psalms 73:9-27

⁹They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

¹⁰Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

¹¹And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?

¹²Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.

¹³Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.

¹⁴For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

¹⁵If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

¹⁶Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,

¹⁷Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.

¹⁸Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

¹⁹How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,

²⁰As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

²¹Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

²²So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.

²³Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

²⁴Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.

²⁵Whom haue I in heauen but thee? and I haue desired none in the earth with thee.

²⁶My flesh fayleth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion for euer.

²⁷For loe, they that withdrawe themselues from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that goe a whoring from thee.