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Book of Psalms 755

2 I will worship towards thy holy temple, and 9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and
I will give glory to thy name. For thy mercy, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy holy 10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me:
name above all. and thy right hand shall hold me.
3 In what day soever I shall call upon thee, 11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover
hear me: thou shalt multiply strength in my me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
soul.
12 But darkness shall not be dark to thee,
4 May all the kings of the earth give glory to
and night shall be light all the day: the darkness
thee: for they have heard all the words of thy
thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
mouth.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou
5 And let them sing in the ways of the Lord:
hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
for great is the glory of the Lord.
14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully
6 For the Lord is high, and looketh on the low:
magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul
and the high he knoweth afar off.
knoweth right well.
7 If I shall walk in the midst of tribulation,
15 My bone is not hidden from thee, which
thou wilt quicken me: and thou hast stretched
thou hast made in secret: and my substance in
forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies:
the lower parts of the earth.
and thy right hand hath saved me.
8 The Lord will repay for me: thy mercy, O 16 Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and
Lord, endureth for ever: O despise not the works in thy book all shall be written: days shall be
of thy hands. formed, and no one in them.
17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made
exceedingly honourable: their principality is ex-
Chapter 138 ceedingly strengthened.
18 I will number them, and they shall be mul-
Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast
tiplied above the sand, I rose up and am still
proved me, and known me:
with thee.
2 Thou hast known my sitting down, and my
19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men
rising up.
of blood, depart from me:
3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off:
20 Because you say in thought: They shall
my path and my line thou hast searched out.
receive thy cities in vain.
4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated
there is no speech in my tongue.
thee: and pined away because of thy enemies?
5 Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,
the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, 22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred:
and hast laid thy hand upon me. and they are become enemies to me.
6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: 23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart:
it is high, and I cannot reach to it. examine me, and know my paths.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or 24 And see if there be in me the way of iniq-
whither shall I flee from thy face? uity: and lead me in the eternal way.