13 Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
14 For all day I have been stricken, my chastisement comes every morning.
15 If I had said: “I will speak thus,” surely I would have betrayed a generation of Your children.
16 But when I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling in my eyes—
17 until I entered the Sanctuary of God, and perceived their end.
18 Surely You put them in slippery places. You hurled them down to destruction.
19 How suddenly they became a ruin— terminated, consumed by terrors.