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Psalms 139
KJV
King James Version · 1611
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
1O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
1 O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
1Unto the end, a psalm of David.
2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
2You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
2Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: rescue me from the unjust man.
3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
3You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
3Who have devised iniquities in their hearts: all the day long they designed battles.
4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
4For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
4They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.
5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
5I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put 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:
6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
6Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near 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.
7Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
7Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
7I said to the Lord: Thou art my God: hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.
8If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
8If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, 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 morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
9If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest 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 shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
10Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.
10The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.
11If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me 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.
12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
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.
12A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.
13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
13My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
13I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
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.
14But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name: and the upright shall dwell with thy countenance.
15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
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16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
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.
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17How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
17How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
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18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.
18If I made up their number, it would be more than the grains of sand; when I am awake, I am still with you.
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19Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
19If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
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20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
20For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
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21Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
21Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
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22I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
22My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
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