Psalms 139
1 For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, you have proved me, and known me.
Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
2 You know my down-sitting and mine up-rising: you understand my thoughts long before.
Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
3 You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
4 For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things,
And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
5 the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.
Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
6 The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.
Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
7 Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
8 If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present. (Sheol h7585)
If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I should spread my wings [to fly] straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, [it would be vain],
If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
10 for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me.
Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night [was] light in my luxury.
And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
12 For darkness will not be darkness with you; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light [be to you].
But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
13 For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped me from my mother's womb.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
14 I will give you thanks; for you are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are your works; and my soul knows [it] well.
I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
15 My bones, which you made in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.
My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unwrought [substance], and all [men] shall be written in your book; they shall be formed by day, though [there should for a time] be no one amongst them.
Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
17 But your friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.
But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you.
I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
19 Oh that you would kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you men of blood.
If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
20 For you will say concerning [their] thought, [that] they shall take your cities in vain.
Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies?
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
22 I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.
I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;
Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
24 and see if [there is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.
And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
