Psalm 73:17–28

¹⁷until I went into the sanctuary of God.

Then I understood their fate.

¹⁸Surely you set them on slippery places.

You cause them to fall onto ruin.ⁱ

¹⁹How they become a desolation in a moment!

They come to a complete end by terrors.

²⁰Like a dream upon awakening,

when you wake up, O Lord,

you will despise their fleeting form.^j

²¹When my heart was embittered

and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,

²²then I was brutish and ignorant.

With you I was like the beasts.

²³But I am continually with you;

you have hold of my right hand.

²⁴You will guide me with your advice,

and afterward you will take me into honor.^k

²⁵Whom do I have in the heavens except you?

And with you I have no other desire on earth.

²⁶My flesh and heart failed,

but God is the strength^l of my heart and my reward forever.

²⁷For indeed, those distancing themselves from you will be ruined.

You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

²⁸But as for me, the approach to God is for my good.

I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge,

in order to tell all your works.