Psalms 139
1 Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.
2 Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.
3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.
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 loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.
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 holdest mee straite behinde and before, and layest thine hand vpon me.
6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
Whither shall I goe from thy Spirite? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
Let mee take the winges of the morning, and dwell in the vttermost parts of the sea:
10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
Yet thither shall thine hand leade me, and thy right hand holde me.
11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
If I say, Yet the darkenes shall hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.
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.
Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.
14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it 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 bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in 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 me, when I was without forme: for in thy booke were all things written, which in continuance were facioned, when there was none of them before.
17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
Howe deare therefore are thy thoughtes vnto me, O God! how great is ye summe 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 moe then the sand: when I wake, I am still with thee.
19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
Oh that thou wouldest slay, O God, the wicked and bloody men, to whom I say, Depart ye from mee:
20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
Which speake wickedly of thee, and being thine enemies are lifted vp in vaine.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee?
22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.
23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,
24 And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
And consider if there be any way of wickednes in me, and leade me in the way for euer.
