< Psalms 139 >
1 For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, you have proved me, and known me.
2 You know my down-sitting and mine up-rising: you understand my thoughts long before.
3 You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.
4 For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things,
5 the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.
6 The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.
7 Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?
8 If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present. (Sheol )
9 If I should spread my wings [to fly] straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, [it would be vain],
10 for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me.
11 When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night [was] light in my luxury.
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].
13 For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped 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.
15 My bones, which you made in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest 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.
17 But your friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you.
19 Oh that you would kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you men of blood.
20 For you will say concerning [their] thought, [that] they shall take your cities in vain.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies?
22 I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.
23 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.
