17. until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their fate.
18. Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.
19. How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.
20. Like a dream upon awakening, when you wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.
21. When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,
22. then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was like the beasts.
23. But I am continually with you; you have hold of my right hand.
24. You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me into honor.
25. Whom do I have in the heavens except you? And with you I have no other desire on earth.
26. My flesh and heart failed, but God is the strength of my heart and my reward forever.
27. For indeed, those distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.
28. But as for me, the approach to God is for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh as my refuge, in order to tell all your works.