Psalms 139
World English BibleTranslation
World English Bible
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1LORD, you have searched me, and you know me.
1Unto the end, a psalm for David.
2You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
2Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.
3You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
3Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.
4For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, LORD, you know it altogether.
4They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of saps is under their lips.
5You hem me in behind and before. You laid your hand on me.
5Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps.
6This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
6The proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare: they have laid for me a stumblingblock by the wayside.
7Where could I go from your Spirit? Or where could I flee from your presence?
7I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.
8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
8O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.
9If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea,
9Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked: they have plotted against me; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.
10even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me.
10The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”
11Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.
12even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
12A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.
13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
13I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
14I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well.
14But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.
15My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth.
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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.
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17How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
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18If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.
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19If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
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20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.
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21LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
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22I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
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23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
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24See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.
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