PSALMS 139

1 To victory, the psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and hast known me; 2 thou hast known my sitting, and my rising again. Thou hast understood my thoughts from [a] far; 3 thou hast inquired of my path and my cord. And thou hast before-seen all my ways; 4 for no word is in my tongue. Lo! Lord, thou hast known all things, 5 the new things and eld [or old]; thou hast formed me, and hast set thine hand on me. 6 Thy knowing is made wonderful of me; it is comforted, and I shall not be able to it. 7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit; and whither shall I flee from thy face? 8 If I shall ascend [or go up] into heaven, thou art there; if I shall go down into hell, thou art present. 9 If I shall take my feathers full early; and shall dwell in the last parts of the sea. 10 And soothly thither thine hand shall lead me forth; and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 And I said, In hap darknesses shall defoul me; and the night is my lightening in my delights. 12 For why darknesses shall not be made dark from thee, and the night shall be lightened as the day; as the darknesses thereof, so and the light thereof. 13 For thou haddest in possession my reins; thou tookest me up from the womb of my mother. 14 I shall acknowledge to thee, for thou art magnified dreadfully; thy works be wonderful, and my soul shall know that full much. 15 My bone, which thou madest in private, is not hid from thee; and my substance formed in the lower parts of [the] earth. 16 Thine eyes saw mine unperfect thing, and all men shall be written in thy book; days shall be formed, and no man is in those [or them]. 17 Forsooth, God, thy friends be made honourable full much to me; the prince-hood of them is comforted full much. 18 I shall number them, and they shall be multiplied above the gravel; I rose up, and yet I am with thee. 19 For thou, God, shalt slay sinners; ye men-quellers, bow away from me. 20 For they say in thought; Take they their cities in vanity. 21 Lord, whether I hated not them that hated thee; and I failed, that is, mourned greatly, on thine enemies? 22 By perfect hatred I hated them; they were made enemies to me. 23 God, prove thou me, and know thou mine heart; ask thou me, and know thou my paths. 24 And see thou, if way of wicked-ness is in me; and lead thou me forth in [the] everlasting way.