Psalms 139

For the director of music. Of David. A Psalm.

1. O GOD, you have searched me, and known me.
2. You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.
3. You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4. For there is no a word in my tongue, but, lo, O GOD, you know it altogether.
5. You have beset me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7. Whither shall I go from your RUACH (Spirit)? or whither shall I flee from your presence:
8. If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in She’ol, behold, you are there.
9. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10. Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
11. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
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.
13. For you have possessed my mind: you have covered me in my mother’s womb.
14. I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well.
15. My substance was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16. Your eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in your cepher (book) all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
17. How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O GOD! how great is the sum of them!
18. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
19. Surely you will slay the wicked, O GOD: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
20. For they speak against you wickedly, and your enemies take your name in vain.
21. Do not I have them, O GOD, that hate you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against you?
22. I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
23. Search me, O GOD, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24. And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.