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Psalms 139
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
WEB
World English Bible · 2000
1Unto the end, a psalm of David.
1 O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
1O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme.
2Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.
2You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
3Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.
3You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
3Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, And art acquainted with all my ways.
4They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.
4For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
4For there is not a word in my tongue, But, lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.
5Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked: and from unjust men deliver me. Who have proposed to supplant my steps:
5I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.
5Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.
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.
6Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.
6Suchknowledge is too wonderful for me; It is high, I cannot attain unto it.
7I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.
7Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
7Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation: thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.
8If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
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.
9If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;
9If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.
10Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.
10Even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me.
11Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.
11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
11If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
12A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.
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.
12Even the darkness hideth not from thee, But the night shineth as the day: The darkness and the light are both aliketo thee.
13I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
13My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
13For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother’s womb.
14But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.
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.
14I will give thanks unto thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well.
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15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
15My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, And curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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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.
16Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Eventhe days that were ordainedfor me, When as yet there was none of them.
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17How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
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18If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.
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19If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
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20For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
20For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
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21Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
21Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22(not in this translation)
22My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
22I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.