Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in innocence,
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in innocence,
Psalms 73:10–16
Therefore their people return to them,
and they drink up waters of abundance.
They say, “How does God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
Behold, these are the wicked.
Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain,
and washed my hands in innocence,
For all day long I have been plagued,
and punished every morning.
If I had said, “I will speak thus”,
behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
When I tried to understand this,
it was too painful for me—
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