Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.

If I were to say, “Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,”

I say, “I wish I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and settle in a safe place!

For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’

The Lord God of Israel deserves praise, in the future and forevermore. Let all the people say, “We agree! Praise the Lord!”