Psalms 139

1 Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know [everything about] me.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David. O Lord, thou hast tried me and knowen 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 knowest my sitting and my rising: thou vnderstandest my thought afarre off.

3 When I travel and when I lie down, you know everything that I do.

Thou compassest my pathes, and my lying downe, and art accustomed to all my wayes.

4 Yahweh, even before I say [MTY] anything, you know everything that I am going to say!

For there is not a word in my tongue, but loe, thou knowest it wholy, O Lord.

5 You protect me on all sides; you put your hand on me [to protect me with your power] [MTY].

Thou holdest mee straite behinde and before, and layest thine hand vpon 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 too wonderfull for mee: it is so high that I cannot attaine vnto 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 goe from thy Spirite? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?

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 ascende into heauen, thou art there: if I lye downe in hell, thou art there. (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,

Let mee take the winges of the morning, and dwell in the vttermost parts of the sea:

10 you would be there also, to lead me by your hand, and you would help me.

Yet thither shall thine hand leade me, and thy right hand holde me.

11 I could request the darkness to hide me, or I could request the light around me to become darkness,

If I say, Yet the darkenes shall hide me, euen the night shalbe light about me.

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).

Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.

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 reines: thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.

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 I am fearefully and wonderously made: marueilous are thy workes, and my soule knoweth it 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 bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in 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!

Thine eyes did see me, when I was without forme: for in thy booke were all things written, which in continuance were facioned, when there was none of them before.

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.

Howe deare therefore are thy thoughtes vnto me, O God! how great is ye summe of them!

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].

If I should count them, they are moe then the sand: when I wake, I 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.

Oh that thou wouldest slay, O God, the wicked and bloody men, to whom I say, Depart ye from mee:

20 They say wicked/malicious things about you; they slander your name.

Which speake wickedly of thee, and being thine enemies are lifted vp in vaine.

21 Yahweh, I certainly [RHQ] hate those who hate you! And I despise [RHQ] those who rebel against you.

Doe not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and doe not I earnestly contend with those that rise vp against thee?

22 I hate them completely, and I consider that they are my enemies.

I hate them with an vnfained hatred, as they were mine vtter enemies.

23 God, search my inner being; find out what I am thinking!

Try mee, O God, and knowe mine heart: prooue me and know my thoughtes,

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 consider if there be any way of wickednes in me, and leade me in the way for euer.