Verses:
1-3:
Truth is wholly lacking in the church.
[2]
4-6:
He that seeks does not find it.
[2]
7-9:
Prayer to the Lord to have pity.
[2]
10:
Answer is made, that they have backslidden;
[2]
11, 12:
therefore no attention is given either to their prayer or to their worship.
[2]
13:
They are flattered into believing that there is no lack and no desolation of truth.
[2]
14-16:
This is from their doctrine of falsity, which will perish, and together with it, those who live according to it.
[3]
17, 18:
Grief that there is no truth either in the church or in doctrine.
[3]
19:
Complaint thereat.
[9, 3]
20-22:
Prayer for them.
[9, 3]