New International Reader's Version

Psalm 73:18-25 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

18. God, I'm sure you will make them slip and fall. You will throw them down and destroy them.

19. It will happen very suddenly. A terrible death will take them away completely.

20. A 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.

21. At one time my heart was sad and my spirit was bitter.

22. I didn't have any sense. I didn't know anything. I acted like a wild animal toward you.

23. But I am always with you. You hold me by my right hand.

24. You give me wise advice to guide me. And when I die, you will take me away into the glory of heaven.

25. I don't have anyone in heaven but you. I don't want anything on earth besides you.