"Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."[A]
[Footnote A: Psalms, cxl:23, 24.]
And else he may say—
"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou are near me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort mc."[A]
[Footnote A: Psalm, xxiii:24.]
Under this sense of nearness, which springs from the doctrine of Immanence, one may again say with David:
"Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
"To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
"Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield."[A]
[Footnote A: Psalms xxxiii:18-20.]