shall be light
all the day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to
thee.

138:13. For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my
mother's womb.

138:14. I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful
are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.

138:15. My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret:
and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.

138:16. Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall
be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.

138:17. But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable:
their principality is exceedingly strengthened.

138:18. I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand,
I rose up and am still with thee.

138:19. If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart
from me:

138:20. Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in
vain.

Because you say in thought, etc... Depart from me, you wicked, who plot
against the servants of God, and think to cast them out of the cities of
their habitation; as if they have received them in vain, and to no
purpose.

138:21. Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pined away
because of thy enemies?

138:22. I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become
enemies to me.

I have hated them... Not with an hatred of malice, but a zeal for the
observance of God's commandments; which he saw were despised by the
wicked, who are to be considered enemies to God.

138:23. Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my
paths.

138:24. And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in
the eternal way.

Psalms Chapter 139

Eripe me, Domine.

A prayer to be delivered from the wicked.

139:1. Unto the end, a psalm of David.

139:2. Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust
man.

139:3. Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long
they designed battles.

139:4. They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of
asps is under their lips.

139:5. Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men
deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:

139:6. The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out
cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the
wayside.

139:7. I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of
my