Psalms 139
1 Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
2 Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
5 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.
Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.
6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
[Such] knowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
12 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.
Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee].
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.
14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
15 My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them.
17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.
19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take [thy name] in vain.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.
23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts;
24 And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting.
