Psalms 139
1 For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, you have proved me, and known me.
For the leader. Of David, a psalm. O Lord, you search and know me;
2 You know my down-sitting and mine up-rising: you understand my thoughts long before.
when I sit, when I rise you know it, you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.
When I walk, when I lie you sift it, familiar with all my ways.
4 For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things,
There is not a word on my tongue, but see! Lord, you know it all.
5 the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.
Behind and before you beset me, upon me you lay your hand.
6 The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.
It’s too wonderful for me to know too lofty I cannot attain it.
7 Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?
Whither shall I go from your spirit? Or whither shall I flee from your face?
8 If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present. (Sheol h7585)
If I climb up to heaven, you are there: or make Sheol my bed, you are there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I should spread my wings [to fly] straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, [it would be vain],
If I lift up the wings of the morning and fly to the end of the sea,
10 for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me.
there also your hand would grasp me, and your right hand take hold of me.
11 When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night [was] light in my luxury.
If I say, “Let the darkness cover me, and night be the light about me,”
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].
The dark is not dark for you, but night is as light as the day.
13 For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped me from my mother's womb.
For you did put me together; in my mother’s womb you did weave me.
14 I will give you thanks; for you are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are your works; and my soul knows [it] 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 bones, which you made in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest 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 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 among 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 your friends, O God, have been greatly honored by me; their rule has been greatly 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 beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you.
Should I count, they are more than the sand. When I wake, I am still with you.
19 Oh that you would kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you men of blood.
Will you slay the wicked, O God? And remove from me the bloodthirsty,
20 For you will say concerning [their] thought, [that] they shall take your cities in vain.
who maliciously defy you and take your name in vain.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies?
Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord? Do I not loathe those who resist you?
22 I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.
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 is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.
and see if guile be in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
