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Psalms 73:8-23 Modern English Version (MEV)

8. They mock and speak with evil oppression;they speak loftily.

9. They set their mouth against the heavens,and their tongue struts through the earth.

10. Therefore people turn to them,and abundant waters are drunk by them.

11. They say, “How does God know?And is there knowledge with the Most High?”

12. Observe, these are the wicked, always at ease;they increase in riches.

13. Surely I have kept my heart pure for nothing,and washed my hands in innocence.

14. For all the day long I am plagued,and chastened every morning.

15. If I said, “I will speak thus,”I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

16. When I thought to understand this,it was troublesome in my eyes,

17. until I went into the sanctuary of God;then I understood their end.

18. Surely You have set them in slippery places;You have brought them down to ruin.

19. How they come to desolation, as in a moment!They have come to an end, utterly consumed with terrors.

20. As a dream when one awakes,so, O Lord, when You awake,You will despise their form.

21. Thus my heart was embittered,and I was pierced in my feelings.

22. I was a brute and did not understand;I was as a beast before You.

23. Nevertheless I am continually with You;You have held me by my right hand.

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