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