Nephi petitions the Lord, "wilt thou redeem my soul?" and "wilt thou not shut the gates of thy righteousness before me, that I may walk in the path of the low valley, that I may be strict in the plain road!" He also asks the Lord to "hedge not up my way but the ways of mine enemy" and "Wilt thou deliver me out of the hands of mine enemies? Wilt thou make me that I may shake at the appearance of sin?" And, indeed, the Lord had made his enemies quake and shake in his presence, as we saw in 1 Nephi 17. Nephi himself wants to shake the same way, but at the appearance of sin. Then "O Lord, wilt thou encircle me around in the robe of thy righteousness!" And "I will trust in thee forever."