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Psalms 73:11-21 Common English Bible (CEB)

11. And what they say is this: "How could God possibly know!Does the Most High know anything at all!"

12. Look at these wicked ones,always relaxed, piling up the wealth!

13. Meanwhile, I’ve kept my heart pure for no good reason;I’ve washed my hands to stay innocent for nothing.

14. I’m weighed down all day long.I’m punished every morning.

15. If I said, "I will talk about all this,"I would have been unfaithful to your children.

16. But when I tried to understand these things,it just seemed like hard work

17. until I entered God’s sanctuaryand understood what would happen to the wicked.

18. You will definitely put them on a slippery path;you will make them fall into ruin!

19. How quickly they are devastated,utterly destroyed by terrors!

20. As quickly as a dream departs from someone waking up, my Lord,when you are stirred up, you make them disappear.

21. When my heart was bitter,when I was all cut up inside,

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