14. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15. If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
16. I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
17. Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
18. But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
19. How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
20. As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
21. For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:
22. and I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.
23. I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.