Psalm 72:17–28

¹⁷Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.

¹⁸But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.

¹⁹How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.

²⁰As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.

²¹For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed:

²²And I am brought to nothing, and I knew not.

²³I am become as a beast before thee: and I am always with thee.

²⁴Thou hast held me by my right hand; and by thy will thou hast conducted me, and with thy glory thou hast received me.

²⁵For what have I in heaven? and besides thee what do I desire upon earth?

²⁶For 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.

²⁷For behold they that go far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that are disloyal to thee.

²⁸But 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.