Psalms 139
1 O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me.
2 You know my sitting down and mine rising up, you understand my thought far off.
Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine up-rising: thou understandest my thoughts long before.
3 You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
Thou hast traced my path and my bed, and hast foreseen all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, thou hast known all things,
5 You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
the last and the first: thou hast fashioned me, and laid thine hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
The knowledge of thee is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I cannot [attain] to it.
7 Where shall I go from your spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither shall I flee from my presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, you are there. (Sheol h7585)
If I should go up to heaven, thou art there: if I should go down to hell, thou art present. (Sheol h7585)
9 If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
If I should spread my wings [to fly] straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, [it would be vain],
10 Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
for even there thy hand would guide me, and thy right hand would hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night [was] light in my luxury.
12 Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
For darkness will not be darkness with thee; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light [be to thee].
13 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb.
For thou, O Lord, hast possessed my reins; thou hast helped me from my mother's womb.
14 I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
I will give thee thanks; for thou art fearfully wondrous; wondrous are thy works; and my soul knows [it] well.
15 My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the low parts of the earth.
My bones, which thou madest in secret were not hidden from thee, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 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.
Thine eyes saw my unwrought [substance], and all [men] shall be written in thy book; they shall be formed by day, though [there should for a time] be no one among them.
17 How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
But thy friends, O God, have been greatly honoured by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.
18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with thee.
19 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, all of you bloody men.
Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, O God; depart from me, ye men of blood.
20 For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
For thou wilt say concerning [their] thought, [that] they shall take thy cities in vain.
21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate thee? and wasted away because of thine enemies?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
and see if [there is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.
