Psalms 139
1 Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
For the leader. Of David, a psalm. O Lord, you search and know me;
2 Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
when I sit, when I rise you know it, you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
When I walk, when I lie you sift it, familiar with all my ways.
4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
There is not a word on my tongue, but see! Lord, you know it all.
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.
Behind and before you beset me, upon me you lay your hand.
6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
It’s too wonderful for me to know too lofty I cannot attain it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
Whither shall I go from your spirit? Or whither shall I flee from your face?
If I climb up to heaven, you are there: or make Sheol my bed, you are there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
If I lift up the wings of the morning and fly to the end of the sea,
10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
there also your hand would grasp me, and your right hand take hold of me.
11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
If I say, “Let the darkness cover me, and night be the 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.
The dark is not dark for you, but night is as light as the day.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
For you did put me together; in my mother’s womb you did weave me.
14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
I give you praise for my fashioning so full of awe, so wonderful. Your works are wonderful. You knew me 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 bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths 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.
Your eyes saw all my days: they stood on your book every one written down, before they were fashioned, while none of them yet was mine.
17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
But how far, O God, beyond measure are your thoughts! How mighty their sum!
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
Should I count, they are more than the sand. When I wake, I am still with you.
19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
Will you slay the wicked, O God? And remove from me the bloodthirsty,
20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
who maliciously defy you and take your name in vain.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord? Do I not loathe those who resist you?
22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
With perfect hatred I hate them, I count them my enemies.
23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
Search me, O God, know my heart: test 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 guile be in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
