Psalm 140

¹Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
²Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
³They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders poison is under their lips. Selah.
⁴Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
⁵The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
⁶I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.
⁷O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
⁸Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
⁹As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
¹⁰Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
¹¹Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow him.
¹²I know that the Lord will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
¹³Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.

Psalm 141

¹Lord, I cry unto thee: make haste unto me; give ear unto my voice, when I cry unto thee.
²Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
³Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
⁴Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

²¹For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou wilt; and who may withstand the power of thine arm?
²²For the whole world before thee is as a little grain of the balance, yea, as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth.
²³But thou hast mercy upon all; for thou canst do all things, and winkest at the sins of men, because they should amend.
²⁴For thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made: for never wouldest thou have made any thing, if thou hadst hated it.
²⁵And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee?
²⁶But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.
12For thine incorruptible Spirit is in all things.
²Therefore chastenest thou them by little and little that offend, and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended, that leaving their wickedness they may believe on thee, O Lord.

¹²And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;
¹³I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satans seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
¹⁴But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
¹⁵So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.
¹⁶Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.
¹⁷He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.