Psalms 139
1 Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know [everything about] me.
Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:
2 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.
Thou hast know my sitting down, and my rising up.
3 When I travel and when I lie down, you know everything that I do.
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.
4 Yahweh, even before I say [MTY] anything, you know everything that I am going to say!
And thou hast foreseen all my ways: for there is no speech in my tongue.
5 You protect me on all sides; you put your hand on me [to protect me with your power] [MTY].
Behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things, the last and those of old: thou hast formed me, and hast laid thy hand upon me.
6 I am not able to understand that you know [everything about me]. That is too great for me to really understand.
Thy knowledge is become wonderful to me: it is high, and I cannot reach to it.
7 (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]
Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy face?
8 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)
If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I descend into hell, thou art present. (Sheol h7585)
9 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,
If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea:
10 you would be there also, to lead me by your hand, and you would help me.
Even there also shall thy hand lead me: and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 I could request the darkness to hide me, or I could request the light around me to become darkness,
And I said: Perhaps darkness shall cover me: and night shall be my light in my pleasures.
12 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).
But darkness shall not be dark to thee, and night shall be light as day: the darkness thereof, and the light thereof are alike to thee.
13 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.
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother’s womb.
14 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.
I will praise thee, for thou art fearfully magnified: wonderful are thy works, and my soul knoweth right well.
15 When my body was being formed, while it was being put together where no one else could see it, you saw it!
My bone is not hidden from thee, which thou hast made in secret: and my substance in the lower parts of the earth.
16 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!
Thy eyes did see my imperfect being, and in thy book all shall be written: days shall be formed, and no one in them.
17 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.
But to me thy friends, O God, are made exceedingly honourable: their principality is exceedingly strengthened.
18 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].
I will number them, and they shall be multiplied above the sand: I rose up and am still with thee.
19 God, I desire that you would kill all the wicked people! And I wish that violent [MTY] men would (leave/go away from) me.
If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me:
20 They say wicked/malicious things about you; they slander your name.
Because you say in thought: They shall receive thy cities in vain.
21 Yahweh, I certainly [RHQ] hate those who hate you! And I despise [RHQ] those who rebel against you.
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies?
22 I hate them completely, and I consider that they are my enemies.
I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
23 God, search my inner being; find out what I am thinking!
Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.
24 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.
And see if there be in me the way of iniquity: and lead me in the eternal way.
