Psalms 139
1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, You have searched me, and know.
2 You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
You have known my sitting down, And my rising up, You have attended to my thoughts from afar.
3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
You have fanned my path and my lying down, And have been acquainted [with] all my ways.
4 For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.
For there is not a word in my tongue, Behold, O YHWH, You have known it all!
5 You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
You have besieged me behind and before, And You place Your hand on me.
6 This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
Knowledge too wonderful for me, It has been set on high, I am not able for it.
7 Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
To where do I go from Your Spirit? And to where do I flee from Your face?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there! (Sheol h7585)
If I ascend the heavens—You [are] there, And spread out a bed in Sheol, behold, You! (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
10 even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
Also there Your hand leads me, And Your right hand holds me.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
And I say, “Surely darkness bruises me,” Then night [is] light to me.
12 even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Also darkness does not hide from You, And night shines as day, As [is] darkness so [is] light.
13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
For You have possessed my reins, You cover me in my mother’s belly.
14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
I confess You, because I have been fearfully distinguished. Your works [are] wonderful, And my soul is knowing [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 substance was not hid from You, When I was made in secret, Curiously worked in the lower part of 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 saw my unformed substance, And all of them are written on Your scroll, The days they were formed—And not one among them.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
And how precious Your thoughts have been to me, O God, how great has been their sum!
18 If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
I recount them! They are more than the sand, I have awoken, and I am still with You.
19 If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
Do You slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!
20 For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
Who exchange You for wickedness, Your enemies [are] lifted up to vanity.
21 LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
Do I not hate, YHWH, those hating You? And grieve myself with Your withstanders?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
I have hated them [with] perfect hatred, They have become enemies to me.
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 a grievous way be in me, And lead me in a perpetual way!
