Psalms 139
1 Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
`To victorie, the salm of Dauith. Lord, thou hast preued me, and hast knowe me;
2 Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
thou hast knowe my sitting, and my rising ayen.
3 Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
Thou hast vndirstonde my thouytis fro fer; thou hast enquerid my path and my corde.
4 And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
And thou hast bifor seien alle my weies; for no word is in my tunge.
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.
Lo! Lord, thou hast knowe alle thingis, the laste thingis and elde; thou hast formed me, and hast set thin hond on me.
6 Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
Thi kunnyng is maad wondirful of me; it is coumfortid, and Y schal not mowe to it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
Whidir schal Y go fro thi spirit; and whider schal Y fle fro thi face?
If Y schal stie in to heuene, thou art there; if Y schal go doun to helle, thou art present. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
If Y schal take my fetheris ful eerli; and schal dwelle in the last partis of the see.
10 Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
And sotheli thider thin hond schal leede me forth; and thi riyt hond schal holde me.
11 And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
And Y seide, In hap derknessis schulen defoule me; and the nyyt is my liytnyng in my delicis.
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.
For whi derknessis schulen not be maad derk fro thee, aud the niyt schal be liytned as the dai; as the derknessis therof, so and the liyt therof.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
For thou haddist in possessioun my reines; thou tokist me vp fro the wombe of my modir.
14 I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
I schal knouleche to thee, for thou art magnefied dreedfuli; thi werkis ben wondirful, and my soule schal knouleche ful miche.
15 My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
Mi boon, which thou madist in priuete, is not hyd fro thee; and my substaunce in the lower partis of erthe.
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.
Thin iyen sien myn vnperfit thing, and alle men schulen be writun in thi book; daies schulen be formed, and no man is in tho.
17 But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
Forsothe, God, thi frendis ben maad onourable ful myche to me; the princeheed of hem is coumfortid ful myche.
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
I schal noumbre hem, and thei schulen be multiplied aboue grauel; Y roos vp, and yit Y am with thee.
19 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
For thou, God, schalt slee synneris; ye menquelleris, bowe awei fro me.
20 Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
For ye seien in thouyt; Take thei her citees in vanite.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
Lord, whether Y hatide not hem that hatiden thee; and Y failide on thin enemyes?
22 I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
Bi perfite haterede Y hatide hem; thei weren maad enemyes to me.
23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
God, preue thou me, and knowe thou myn herte; axe thou me, and knowe thou my pathis.
24 And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
And se thou, if weie of wickidnesse is in me; and lede thou me forth in euerlastinge wei.
