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.
24. Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.
25. For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?
26. For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.
27. For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.
28. But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.