< Psalms 139 >
1 “To the chief musician, by David, a psalm.” O Lord! thou hast searched me through, and thou knowest [me].
to/for to conduct to/for David melody LORD to search me and to know
2 Thou indeed knowest my sitting down and my rising up, thou understandest my thinking while yet afar off.
you(m. s.) to know to dwell I and to arise: rise I to understand to/for thought my from distant
3 My walking and my lying down hast thou limited, and with all my ways art thou acquainted.
to journey I and to lie down I to scatter and all way: conduct my be useful
4 For, while there is not a word on my tongue, lo, thou, O Lord, knowest it entirely.
for nothing speech in/on/with tongue my look! LORD to know all her
5 Behind and before hast thou hedged me in, and thou placest upon me thy hand.
back and front: old to confine me and to set: put upon me palm your
6 Too wonderful is such knowledge for me: it is too exalted, I cannot attain unto it.
(incomprehensible *Q(k)*) knowledge from me to exalt not be able to/for her
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee away from thy presence?
where? to go: went from spirit your and where? from face your to flee
8 If I should ascend into heaven, thou art there; and if I should make my bed in the nether world, behold, thou art there. (Sheol )
if to ascend heaven there you(m. s.) and to lay hell: Sheol look! you (Sheol )
9 If I should lift up the wings of the morning-dawn, if I should dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
to lift: raise wing dawn to dwell in/on/with end sea
10 Even there would thy hand lead me, and thy right hand would seize hold of me.
also there hand your to lead me and to grasp me right your
11 If I said, Surely darkness shall enshroud me, and into night [be turned] the light about me:
and to say surely darkness to bruise me and night light about/through/for me
12 Yet even darkness can obscure nothing from thee; but the night will shine like the day; both the darkness and the light are alike [to thee].
also darkness not to darken from you and night like/as day to light like/as darkness like/as light
13 For thou possessest my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
for you(m. s.) to buy kidney my to weave me in/on/with belly: womb mother my
14 I will thank thee therefore, that I am [so] fearfully [and] wonderfully made: wonderful are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
to give thanks you upon for to fear: revere be distinguished to wonder deed: work your and soul my to know much
15 My being was not concealed from thee, when I was made in secret, when I was [so to say] embroidered in the lowest parts of the earth.
not to hide strength my from you which to make in/on/with secrecy to weave in/on/with lower land: country/planet
16 My undeveloped substance did thy eyes see; and in thy book were all of them written down—the days which have been formed, while yet not one of them was here.
embryo my to see: see eye your and upon scroll: book your all their to write day to form: formed (and to/for him *Q(K)*) one in/on/with them
17 And how precious are unto me thy thoughts, O God! how mightily great is their sum!
and to/for me what? be precious thought your God what? be vast head: group their
18 Should I count them, they would be more numerous than the sand: I awake, and I am still with thee.
to recount them from sand to multiply [emph?] to awake and still I with you
19 If thou wouldst but slay the wicked, O God! and ye men of blood, depart from me.
if: surely yes to slay god wicked and human blood to turn aside: depart from me
20 Who speak of thee for a wicked end, thy enemies, that bear [thy name] for a vain purpose.
which to say you to/for plot to lift: raise to/for vanity: vain enemy your
21 Behold, those that hate thee I ever hate, O Lord; and for those that rise up against thee do I feel loathing.
not to hate you LORD to hate and in/on/with to confront you to loath
22 With the utmost hatred do I hate them: enemies are they become unto me.
limit hating to hate them to/for enemy to be to/for me
23 Search me through, O God, and know my heart; probe me, and know my thoughts:
to search me God and to know heart my to test me and to know anxiety my
24 And see if there be a way of perverseness in me, and lead me on the way of eternity.
and to see: see if way: conduct pain in/on/with me and to lead me in/on/with way: conduct forever: enduring