Psalms 139
1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.] YHWH, you have searched me, and you know me.
O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You know my sitting down and mine rising up, you understand my thought far off.
3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but, look, YHWH, you know it altogether.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
5 You encircle me behind and in front, and you place your hand upon me.
You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
6 This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your 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 ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;
If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be 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 darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb.
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 you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the low parts of 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.
your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God. How vast is the sum of them.
How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum 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 more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men.
Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, all of you bloody men.
20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21 YHWH, do I not hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
