Psalms 139

1 TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, You have searched me, and know.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.

2 You have known my sitting down, And my rising up, You have attended to my thoughts from afar.

Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

3 You have fanned my path and my lying down, And have been acquainted [with] all my ways.

Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.

4 For there is not a word in my tongue, Behold, O YHWH, You have known it all!

For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

5 You have besieged me behind and before, And You place Your hand on me.

Thou holdest mee straite behinde and before, and layest thine hand vpon me.

6 Knowledge too wonderful for me, It has been set on high, I am not able for it.

Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.

7 To where do I go from Your Spirit? And to where do I flee from Your face?

Whither shall I goe from thy Spirite? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

8 If I ascend the heavens—You [are] there, And spread out a bed in Sheol, behold, You! (Sheol h7585)

If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there. (Sheol h7585)

9 I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,

Let mee take the winges of the morning, and dwell in the vttermost parts of the sea:

10 Also there Your hand leads me, And Your right hand holds me.

Yet thither shall thine hand leade me, and thy right hand holde me.

11 And I say, “Surely darkness bruises me,” Then night [is] light to me.

If I say, Yet the darkenes shall hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.

12 Also darkness does not hide from You, And night shines as day, As [is] darkness so [is] light.

Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.

13 For You have possessed my reins, You cover me in my mother’s belly.

For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.

14 I confess You, because I have been fearfully distinguished. Your works [are] wonderful, And my soul is knowing [it] well.

I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well.

15 My substance was not hid from You, When I was made in secret, Curiously worked in the lower part of earth.

My bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in the earth.

16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance, And all of them are written on Your scroll, The days they were formed—And not one among them.

Thine eyes did see me, when I was without forme: for in thy booke were all things written, which in continuance were facioned, when there was none of them before.

17 And how precious Your thoughts have been to me, O God, how great has been their sum!

Howe deare therefore are thy thoughtes vnto me, O God! how great is ye summe of them!

18 I recount them! They are more than the sand, I have awoken, and I am still with You.

If I should count them, they are moe then the sand: when I wake, I am still with thee.

19 Do You slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!

Oh that thou wouldest slay, O God, the wicked and bloody men, to whom I say, Depart ye from mee:

20 Who exchange You for wickedness, Your enemies [are] lifted up to vanity.

Which speake wickedly of thee, and being thine enemies are lifted vp in vaine.

21 Do I not hate, YHWH, those hating You? And grieve myself with Your withstanders?

Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee?

22 I have hated them [with] perfect hatred, They have become enemies to me.

I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart, Try me, and know my thoughts,

Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,

24 And see if a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a perpetual way!

And consider if there be any way of wickednes in me, and leade me in the way for euer.