Psalms 139
1 For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, you have proved me, and known me.
Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know [everything about] me.
2 You know my down-sitting and mine up-rising: you understand my thoughts long before.
You know when I sit down and when I stand up. [Even though you are] far away from me, you know what I am thinking.
3 You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.
When I travel and when I lie down, you know everything that I do.
4 For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things,
Yahweh, even before I say [MTY] anything, you know everything that I am going to say!
5 the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.
You protect me on all sides; you put your hand on me [to protect me with your power] [MTY].
6 The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.
I am not able to understand that you know [everything about me]. That is too great for me to really understand.
7 Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?
(Where could I go to escape from your Spirit?/I could not go anywhere to escape from your Spirit.) [RHQ] (Where could I go to get away from you?/I could not go anywhere to get away from you.) [RHQ]
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 went up to heaven, you would be there. If I lay down in the place where the dead people are, you would be 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 had wings and flew very far east [MTY], or if I flew west and made a place to live [on an island] in the ocean,
10 for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me.
you would be there also, to lead me by your hand, and you would help me.
11 When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night [was] light in my luxury.
I could request the darkness to hide me, or I could request the light around me to become darkness,
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].
but even [if that happened], the darkness would not be darkness for you! For you, the night is [as bright] as the daytime is, because for you, daylight and darkness are (not different/the same).
13 For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped me from my mother's womb.
You created [all] the parts of my body; you put [the parts of] my body together when I was still in my mother’s womb.
14 I will give you thanks; for you are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are your works; and my soul knows [it] well.
I praise you because you made my [body in a very] awesome and wonderful way. Everything that you do is amazing! I know that very well.
15 My bones, which you made in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.
When my body was being formed, while it was being put together where no one else could see it, you saw it!
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.
You saw me before I was born. You wrote in your book the number of days that you had decided that I would live. You did that before any of those days had [even] started!
17 But your friends, O God, have been greatly honored by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.
God, what you think about me is very precious (OR, is very hard to understand). There is a great number of things that you think about.
18 I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you.
If I could count them, [I would see that] they are more than the grains of sand [at the seashore]. And when I wake up, I am still with you [and I know that there are still more of your thoughts about me to count].
19 Oh that you would kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you men of blood.
God, I desire that you would kill all the wicked people! And I wish that violent [MTY] men would (leave/go away from) me.
20 For you will say concerning [their] thought, [that] they shall take your cities in vain.
They say wicked/malicious things about you; they slander your name.
21 Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies?
Yahweh, I certainly [RHQ] hate those who hate you! And I despise [RHQ] those who rebel against you.
22 I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.
I hate them completely, and I consider that they are my enemies.
23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;
God, search my inner being; find out what I am thinking!
24 and see if [there is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.
Find out whether there is anything evil in my [inner being], and lead me along the road [that leads to my being with you] forever.
