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Psalms 138
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1(139) For the end, a Psalm of David. O Lord, you have proved me, and known me.
1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
2You know my down-sitting and my up-rising: you understand my thoughts long before.
2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
3You have traced my path and my bed, and have foreseen all my ways.
3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
4For there is no unrighteous word in my tongue: behold, O Lord, you have known all things,
4For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, Yahweh, you know it altogether.
5the last and the first: you have fashioned me, and laid your hand upon me.
5You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
6The knowledge of you is too wonderful for me; it is very difficult, I can’t [attain] to it.
6This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
7Whither shall I go from your Spirit? and whither shall I flee from your presence?
7Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
8If I should go up to heaven, you are there: if I should go down to hell, you are present.
8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
9If I should spread my wings [to fly] straight forward, and sojourn at the extremity of the sea, [it would be vain],
9If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10for even there your hand would guide me, and your right hand would hold me.
10even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
11When I said, Surely the darkness will cover me; even the night [was] light in my luxury.
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
12For darkness will not be darkness with you; but night will be light as day: as its darkness, so shall its light [be to you].
12even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
13For you, O Lord, have possessed my reins; you have helped me from my mother's womb.
13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14I will give you thanks; for you are fearfully wondrous; wondrous are your works; and my soul knows [it] well.
14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
15My bones, which youmade in secret were not hidden from you, nor my substance, in the lowest parts of the earth.
15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my unwrought [substance], and all [men] shall be written in your book; they shall be formed by day, though [there should for a time] be no one among them.
16Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
17But your friends, O God, have been greatly honored by me; their rule has been greatly strengthened.
17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
18I will number them, and they shall be multiplied beyond the sand; I awake, and am still with you.
18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
19Oh that youwould kill the wicked, O God; depart from me, you⌃ men of blood.
19If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20For you will say concerning [their] thought, [that] they shall take your cities in vain.
20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
21Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate you? and wasted away because of your enemies?
21Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
22I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted my enemies.
22I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
23Prove me, O God, and know my heart; examine me, and know my paths;
23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
24and see if [there is any] way of iniquity in me, and lead me in an everlasting way.
24See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.