¹⁸ I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from Yahweh.

¹⁵ Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

¹¹ Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

¹ David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

¹¹ What is my strength, that I should wait? What is my end, that I should be patient?

²² As for me, I said in my haste, "I am cut off from before your eyes." Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

¹¹ I said in my haste, "All men are liars."