1 I cried unto the Lord, when I was in affliction at my end; and to GOD when sinners set upon me:

2 for suddenly there was heard before me the sound of war: for He will hear me, because I am filled with righteousness:

3 and I reckoned in my heart that I was filled with righteousness: in the day that I became rich and was with the multitude of my children.

4 Their wealth, however, has been given to the whole earth: and their glory as far as the ends of the earth.

5 They were lifted up as high as the stars: and they said,

6 speaking without knowledge....

7 For their sins were in secret, and I knew them not:

8 and their wickedness exceeded that of the nations that had been before them: and they defiled the sanctuary of the Lord with pollution.