Psalm 4.
I thank you, O Lord,
for your eye is awake and watches over my soul.
You rescue me from the jealousy of liars,
from the congregation of those who seek the smooth way.
But you save the soul of the poor
whom they planned to destroy
by spilling the blood of your servant.
I walked because of you - but they didn't know this.
They laughed at me. They shamed me
with lies from their mouth.
But you helped the soul of the poor and the weak,
you saved me from their harsh arms,
you redeemed me amid their taunts.
From the wicked I do not fear destruction.
Psalm 8.
I thank you, O Lord.
You illumined my face by your covenant.
I seek you,
As sure as the dawn you appear as perfect light.
Teachers of lies have comforted your people
and now they stumble, foolishly.
They abhor themselves and do not esteem me
through whom your wonders and powers are manifest.
They have banished me from my land
like a bird from its nest,
and my friends and neighbors are driven from me.
They think me a broken pot.
They preach lies. They are dissembling prophets.
They devise baseness against me,
exchanging your teaching, written in my heart,
for smooth words.
They deny knowledge to the thirsty
and force them to drink vinegar to cover up error.
They stumble through mad feasts,
but you, God, spurn the schemes of Belial.
Your wisdom prevails.
Your hearts meditation prevails, established forever.
Psalm 23.
Your holy spirit illuminates
the dark places of the heart of your servant,
with light like the sun.
I look to the covenants made by men, worthless.
Only your truth shines,
and those who love it are wise
and walk in the glow of your light.
From darkness you raise hearts.
Let light shine on your servant.
Your light is everlasting.
The Book of Secrets.
This shall be the sign that this shall come to pass:
when the sources of evil are shut up
and wickedness is banished in the presence of righteousness,
as darkness in the presence of light,
or as smoke vanishes and is no more,
in the same way wickedness will vanish forever
and righteousness will be manifest like the sun.
The world will be made firm
and all the adherents of the secrets of sin shall be no more.
True knowledge shall fill the world
and there will never be any more folly.
This is all ready to happen, it is a true oracle,
and by this it shall be known to you that it cannot be averted.
It is true that all the peoples reject evil,
yet it advances in all of them.
It is true that truth is esteemed in the utterances of all the nations -
yet is there any tongue or language that grasp it?
What nation wants to be oppressed by another that is stronger?
Or who wants his money to be stolen by a wicked man?
Yet what nation is there that has not oppressed its neighbour?
Where is the people that has not robbed the wealth of another ...