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Psalms 139
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890
1 O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
1 Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
2You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
2 Thou knowest my down-sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off;
3You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
3 Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways;
4For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
4 For there is not yet a word on my tongue, [but] lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
5I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.
5 Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.
6Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.
6 O knowledge too wonderful for me! it is high, I cannot [attain] unto it.
7Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? and whither flee from thy presence?
8If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
8 If I ascend up into the heavens thou art there; or if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou [art there];
9If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;
9 [If] I take the wings of the dawn [and] dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.
10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
11 And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.
12 Even darkness hideth not from thee, and the night shineth as the day: the darkness is as the light.
13My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
13 For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
14I will give you praise, for I am strangely and delicately formed; your works are great wonders, and of this my soul is fully conscious.
14 I will praise thee, for I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.
15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
15 My bones were not hidden from thee when I was made in secret, curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
16Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book all my days were recorded, even those which were purposed before they had come into being.
16 Thine eyes did see my unformed substance, and in thy book all [my members] were written; [during many] days were they fashioned, when [as yet] there was none of them.
17How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
17 But how precious are thy thoughts unto me, OGod! how great is the sum of them!
18If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
18 [If] I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.
19If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
19 Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, OGod! And ye men of blood, depart from me.
20For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
20 For they speak of thee wickedly, they take [thy name] in vain, thine enemies.
21Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
21 Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee?
22My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.