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Psalms 139
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949
1To the Overseer. --A Psalm by David. Jehovah, Thou hast searched me, and knowest.
1 O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
2Thou--Thou hast known my sitting down, And my rising up, Thou hast attended to my thoughts from afar.
2You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
3My path and my couch Thou hast fanned, And <FI>with<Fi> all my ways hast been acquainted.
3You keep watch over my steps and my sleep, and have knowledge of all my ways.
4For there is not a word in my tongue, Lo, O Jehovah, Thou hast known it all!
4For there is not a word on my tongue which is not clear to you, O Lord.
5Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.
5I am shut in by you on every side, and you have put your hand on me.
6Knowledge too wonderful for me, It hath been set on high, I am not able for it.
6Such knowledge is a wonder greater than my powers; it is so high that I may not come near it.
7Whither do I go from Thy Spirit? And whither from Thy face do I flee?
7Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?
8If I ascend the heavens--there Thou <FI>art<Fi> , And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!
8If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
9I take the wings of morning, I dwell in the uttermost part of the sea,
9If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;
10Also there Thy hand doth lead me, And Thy right hand doth hold me.
10Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.
11And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night <FI>is<Fi> light to me.
11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;
12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as <FI>is<Fi> darkness so <FI>is<Fi> light.
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.
13For Thou--Thou hast possessed my reins, Thou dost cover me in my mother's belly.
13My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.
14I confess Thee, because that <FI>with<Fi> wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful <FI>are<Fi> Thy works, And my soul is knowing <FI>it<Fi> 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.
15My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.
15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.
16Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed--And not one among 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.
17And to me how precious have been Thy thoughts, O God, how great hath been their sum!
17How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
18I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and 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.
19Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!
19If only you would put the sinners to death, O God; go far from me, you men of blood.
20Who exchange Thee for wickedness, Lifted up to vanity <FI>are<Fi> Thine enemies.
20For they go against you with evil designs, and your haters make sport of your name.
21Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?
21Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me?
22<FI> With<Fi> perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
22My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.