Psalms 139
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
`To victorie, the salm of Dauith. Lord, thou hast preued me, and hast knowe me;
2 Thou knowest my down-sitting and my up rising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
thou hast knowe my sitting, and my rising ayen.
3 Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted [with] all my ways.
Thou hast vndirstonde my thouytis fro fer; thou hast enquerid my path and my corde.
4 For [there is] not a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
And thou hast bifor seien alle my weies; for no word is in my tunge.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.
Lo! Lord, thou hast knowe alle thingis, the laste thingis and elde; thou hast formed me, and hast set thin hond on me.
6 [Such] knowledge [is] too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot [attain] to it.
Thi kunnyng is maad wondirful of me; it is coumfortid, and Y schal not mowe to it.
7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Whidir schal Y go fro thi spirit; and whider schal Y fle fro thi face?
8 If I ascend into heaven, thou [art] there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou [art there]. (Sheol h7585)
If Y schal stie in to heuene, thou art there; if Y schal go doun to helle, thou art present. (Sheol h7585)
9 [If] I take the wings of the morning, [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
If Y schal take my fetheris ful eerli; and schal dwelle in the last partis of the see.
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
And sotheli thider thin hond schal leede me forth; and thi riyt hond schal holde me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
And Y seide, In hap derknessis schulen defoule me; and the nyyt is my liytnyng in my delicis.
12 Yes, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].
For whi derknessis schulen not be maad derk fro thee, aud the niyt schal be liytned as the dai; as the derknessis therof, so and the liyt therof.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
For thou haddist in possessioun my reines; thou tokist me vp fro the wombe of my modir.
14 I will praise thee: for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: wonderful [are] thy works; and [that] my soul well knoweth.
I schal knouleche to thee, for thou art magnefied dreedfuli; thi werkis ben wondirful, and my soule schal knouleche ful miche.
15 My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret, [and] curiously formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
Mi boon, which thou madist in priuete, is not hyd fro thee; and my substaunce in the lower partis of erthe.
16 Thy eyes saw my substance, yet being imperfect; and in thy book all [my members] were written, [which] in continuance were fashioned, when [as yet there was] none of them.
Thin iyen sien myn vnperfit thing, and alle men schulen be writun in thi book; daies schulen be formed, and no man is in tho.
17 How precious also are thy thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Forsothe, God, thi frendis ben maad onourable ful myche to me; the princeheed of hem is coumfortid ful myche.
18 [If] I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
I schal noumbre hem, and thei schulen be multiplied aboue grauel; Y roos vp, and yit Y am with thee.
19 Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For thou, God, schalt slee synneris; ye menquelleris, bowe awei fro me.
20 For they speak against thee wickedly, [and] thy enemies take [thy name] in vain.
For ye seien in thouyt; Take thei her citees in vanite.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
Lord, whether Y hatide not hem that hatiden thee; and Y failide on thin enemyes?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
Bi perfite haterede Y hatide hem; thei weren maad enemyes to me.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts:
God, preue thou me, and knowe thou myn herte; axe thou me, and knowe thou my pathis.
24 And see if [there is any] wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
And se thou, if weie of wickidnesse is in me; and lede thou me forth in euerlastinge wei.
