18Surely thou settest them in slippery places:

Thou castest them down to destruction.

19How are they become a desolation in a moment!

They are utterly consumed with terrors.

20As a dream when one awaketh,

So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

21For my soul was grieved,

And I was pricked in my heart:

22So brutish was I, and ignorant;

I was as a beast before thee.

23Nevertheless I am continually with thee:

Thou hast holden my right hand.

24Thou wilt guide me with thy counsel,

And afterward receive me to glory.

25Whom have I in heaven but thee?

And there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee.

26My flesh and my heart faileth;

But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

27For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish:

Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, departing from thee.

28But it is good for me to draw near unto God:

I have made the Lord Jehovah my refuge,

That I may tell of all thy works.