Psalm 73:17–28

¹⁷It troubled me until I entered God’s temple.

Then I understood what will happen to bad people in the end.

¹⁸God, I’m sure you will make them slip and fall.

You will throw them down and destroy them.

¹⁹It will happen very suddenly.

A terrible death will take them away completely.

²⁰A dream goes away when a person wakes up.

Lord, it will be like that when you rise up.

It will be as if those people were only a dream.

²¹At one time my heart was sad

and my spirit was bitter.

²²I didn’t have any sense. I didn’t know anything.

I acted like a wild animal toward you.

²³But I am always with you.

You hold me by my right hand.

²⁴You give me wise advice to guide me.

And when I die, you will take me away

into the glory of heaven.

²⁵I don’t have anyone in heaven but you.

I don’t want anything on earth besides you.

²⁶My body and my heart may grow weak.

God, you give strength to my heart.

You are everything I will ever need.

²⁷Those who don’t want anything to do with you will die.

You destroy all those who aren’t faithful to you.

²⁸But I am close to you. And that’s good.

Lord and King, I have made you my place of safety.

I will talk about everything you have done.