OEBcth - Psalms - 139

139:1  O Lord, you search and know me;

139:2  when I sit, when I rise you know it, you perceive my thoughts from afar.

139:3  When I walk, when I lie you sift it, familiar with all my ways.

139:4  There is not a word on my tongue, but see! Lord, you know it all.

139:5  Behind and before you beset me, upon me you lay your hand.

139:6  It’s too wonderful for me to know too lofty I cannot attain it.

139:7  Whither shall I go from your spirit? Or whither shall I flee from your face?

139:8  If I climb up to heaven, you are there: or make Sheol my bed, you are there.

139:9  If I lift up the wings of the morning and fly to the end of the sea,

139:10  there also your hand would grasp me, and your right hand take hold of me.

139:11  If I say, “Let the darkness cover me, and night be the light about me,”

139:12  The dark is not dark for you, but night is as light as the day.

139:13  For you did put me together; in my mother’s womb you did weave me.

139:14  I give you praise for my fashioning so full of awe, so wonderful. Your works are wonderful. You knew me right well;

139:15  my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret, and woven in the depths of the earth.

139:16  Your eyes saw all my days: they stood on your book every one written down, before they were fashioned, while none of them yet was mine.

139:17  But how far, O God, beyond measure are your thoughts! How mighty their sum!

139:18  Should I count, they are more than the sand. When I wake, I am still with you.

139:19  Will you slay the wicked, O God! And remove from me people of blood,

139:20  who maliciously defy you and take your name in vain.

139:21  Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord? Do I not loathe those who resist you?

139:22  With perfect hatred I hate them, I count them my enemies.

139:23  Search me, O God, know my heart: test me, and know my thoughts,

139:24  and see if guile be in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.