18. So, because of deceitfulness, truly, you have placed it before them. While they were being lifted up, you were casting them down.
19. How have they been brought to desolation? They have suddenly failed. They have perished because of their iniquity.
20. As a dream is to those who awaken, O Lord, so will you reduce their image to nothing in your city.
21. For my heart has been inflamed, and my temperament has been changed.
22. And so, I have been reduced to nothing, and I did not know it.
23. I have become like a beast of burden to you, and I am always with you.
24. You have held my right hand. And in your will, you have conducted me, and with your glory, you have taken me up.