15 If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have been untrue to the generation of Your children.

16 When I thought how to understand this,
It was¹ too painful for me— ‡

17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their ^aend. ‡

18 Surely ^aYou set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction. ‡

19 Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.

20 As a dream when one awakes,
So, Lord, when You awake,
You shall despise their image.