13. It seems as if I have kept my heart pure without any reason. It didn't do me any good to wash my hands to show that I wasn't guilty of doing anything wrong.
14. Day after day I've been in pain. God has punished me every morning.
15. What if I had said, "I will speak as evil people do"? Then I wouldn't have been faithful to God's children.
16. I tried to understand it all. But it was more than I could handle.
17. It troubled me until I entered God's temple. Then I understood what will happen to bad people in the end.
18. God, I'm sure you will make them slip and fall. You will throw them down and destroy them.
19. It will happen very suddenly. A terrible death will take them away completely.
20. A dream goes away when a person wakes up. Lord, it will be like that when you rise up. It will be as if those people were only a dream.
21. At one time my heart was sad and my spirit was bitter.
22. I didn't have any sense. I didn't know anything. I acted like a wild animal toward you.
23. But I am always with you. You hold me by my right hand.
24. You give me wise advice to guide me. And when I die, you will take me away into the glory of heaven.
25. I don't have anyone in heaven but you. I don't want anything on earth besides you.
26. My body and my heart may grow weak. God, you give strength to my heart. You are everything I will ever need.
27. Those who don't want anything to do with you will die. You destroy all those who aren't faithful to you.