Psalms 139
1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.] LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
Thou knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.
3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are 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 on my tongue, but, look, LORD, you know it altogether.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.
5 You encircle me behind and in front, and you place your hand upon me.
Thou holdest mee straite behinde and before, and layest thine hand vpon me.
6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
Thy knowledge is too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto it.
7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
Whither shall I goe from thy Spirite? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, look, you are there. (Sheol h7585)
If I ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Let mee take the winges of the morning, and dwell in the vttermost parts of the sea:
10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
Yet thither shall thine hand leade me, and thy right hand holde me.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
If I say, Yet the darkenes shall hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.
12 even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.
13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
For thou hast possessed my reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.
14 I will give thanks to you, for I am awesomely and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful, and my soul knows that very well.
I will praise thee, for I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it well.
15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the 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 body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of 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 How precious to me are your thoughts, God. How vast is the sum of them.
Howe deare therefore are thy thoughtes vnto me, O God! how great is ye summe of them!
18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, 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 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men.
Oh that thou wouldest slay, O God, the wicked and bloody men, to whom I say, Depart ye from mee:
20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
Which speake wickedly of thee, and being thine enemies are lifted vp in vaine.
21 LORD, do I not hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
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 hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.
23 Search me, 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 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
And consider if there be any way of wickednes in me, and leade me in the way for euer.
